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Historical Writing since 1945 : Historical Writing since 1945

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
eBook, English, 2011
Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford, 2011
1 online resource (741 pages)
9780191036774, 0191036773
1041033396
Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Notes on the Contributors; Advisory Board; Editors' Introduction; 1. History and Theory; 2. History and Memory; 3. Censorship and History since 1945; 4. Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies; 5. World History; 6. Global Economic History: A Survey; 7. Women's and Gender History; 8. The Historiography of Environmental History; 9. The Historiography of Science and Technology; 10. History and Social Science in the West; 11. From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing. 12. Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary13. French Historical Writing; 14. British Historical Writing; 15. Scandinavian Historical Writing; 16. Italian Historical Writing; 17. Historical Writing in the Balkans; 18. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia; 19. African Historical Writing; 20. Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political and Economic Instability; 21. Brazilian Historical Writing; 22. Mexican Historical Writing; 23. Historical Writing in the United States; 24. Arab Historical Writing; 25. Indian Historical Writing since 1947. 26. Thai Historical Writing27. Vietnamese Historical Writing; 28. Indonesian Historical Writing after Independence; 29. Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia; 30. Chinese Historical Writing since 1949; 31. Japanese Historical Writing; 32. Historians and Historical Writing in Modern Korea; Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z