Experiments in Rethinking HistoryAlun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone From two of the world's leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice as well as introductory material in each section that allows the reader to fully engage with the theoretical aspects of the book. It provides a deeper understanding of how to engage with the past today. Fourteen thought-provoking experimental pieces of historical writing tackle subjects as diverse as lynching in South Carolina, the life of an eighteenth-century Marquise, and a journey to a string of Pacific islands, and demonstrates how little-considered factors such as the impact of emotions, authorial subjectivity, the confining character of boundaries, and even a sense of boredom with conventional historical writing practices, can intrude on historical practice This text works as a Reader companion alongside the Routledge best-seller Rethinking History and provides students with an innovative, engaging and easy-to-read research tool to enhance all history-related course studies. |
Contents
practice and theory | 1 |
theory and practice | 7 |
Selfreflexive | 13 |
When I was a child I danced as a child but now that I am old I think about salvation Concepcion Gonzalez and a past that would not stay put | 17 |
Writing rewriting the beach an essay | 30 |
Reconditioning history adapting knowledge from the past into realities of the present | 56 |
Not a Kodak moment picturing Asian Americans | 77 |
New voices | 85 |
Reconstructing the voice of a noblewoman of the time of Peter the Great Daria Mikhailovna Menshikova an exercise in pseudoautobiographical writi... | 183 |
A prologue for La Dame dEsprit the biography of the marquise Du Chatelet | 195 |
Blackout | 209 |
Miniatures | 223 |
Dictator in a dumpster thoughts on history and garbage | 225 |
The abattoir of the prairie | 228 |
Liberace behind the music | 231 |
Rethinking Charles Atlas | 234 |