Volume 5 offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world.
This volume aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field, and especially to provoke cross-cultural comparisons.
Amin seizes on precisely this general (national) staging of the local not only to show that the Indian nation emerged in its narration but also to mark the tension between the two as the point where the subaltern memory of 1922 can ...
And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions.
Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith (New Orleans, 2005). Byland, Bruce and Pohl, John M. D., In the Realm of 8 Deer: TheArchaeology of the Mixtec Codices (Norman, ...
The fifth volume of this series offers chapters on the writing of history globally since 1945.
This book covers the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600.
A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asia between 400 and 1400.
An introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of Greek and Roman historiography"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
Others come from the events of the 1980s, with their profound social, political, and economic consequences. This new edition provides coverage of the last decade, and takes account of recent historical writing.