| What Is History Really About?: Reflections on Theory and Practicereflections on Theory and Practice Contributor(s): Burke, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1912224127 ISBN-13: 9781912224128 Publisher: Edward Everett Root OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | Historiography |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.62 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions about the past or help them to answer old ones.
The second part of the author's work is to illustrate some major new trends in historical practice: the use of images as evidence, for instance, the interest in different attitudes to time, and the increasing awareness of the relation, close or distant, between historians and the past that they study. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burke, Peter: - Peter Burke was, from 1962-79, one of the leading educational innovators in developing the inter-disciplinary School of European Studies at University of Sussex. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is celebrated world-wide as a historian both of the early modern era and as a writer and teacher who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married o Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke. |