History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography

Explore the possibilities remaining for historical study.

This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others.

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Learning Goals

Upon completing this text, readers will be able to:

• Understand how to examine trends in history.
• Understand how historical events influence today’s world.  

Chapter 1: What Was History?
Chapter 2: What Is History?
Chapter 3: Problems Of Historical Knowledge: Historicism, Presentism, and the Writing Of History
Chapter 4: Cross-Pollination

Chapter 5: Varieties Of History

Chapter 6: Historical Actors

Chapter 7: Post Modernist (Re)visions

Chapter 8: Post-Colonialism and the Scope of History
Chapter 9: The Future of History

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