The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-century History and Theory

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Anna Green, Kathleen Troup
Manchester University Press, 1999 - History - 338 pages
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market.
 

Contents

The empiricists
1
Marxist historians
33
Freud and psychohistory
59
The Annales
87
Historical sociology
110
Quantitative history
141
Anthropology and ethnohistorians
172
The question of narrative
204
Oral history
230
Gender and history
253
Postcolonial perspectives
277
The challenge of poststructuralismpostmodernism
297
Index
326
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Anna Green is Associate Professor in the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Kathleen Troup is Associate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne

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