New Perspectives on Historical Writing

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Peter Burke
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992 - History - 254 pages

Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.

Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history "from below," the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.

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Contents

the New History its Past and its Future
1
Jim Sharpe
24
Womens History
42
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

Bibliographic information

TitleNew Perspectives on Historical Writing
New Perspectives on Historical Writing, Peter Burke
EditorPeter Burke
Editionreprint
PublisherPennsylvania State University Press, 1992
Original fromthe University of Wisconsin - Madison
DigitizedMar 5, 2010
ISBN027100827X, 9780271008271
Length254 pages
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History / Essays
History / Europe / General
History / Historiography
History / Study & Teaching
History / United States / General
Philosophy / Methodology
  
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