Burke, Peter : University of Cambridge / Emmanuel College
Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Summary
A new edition of this best-selling collection of essays by leading experts on historical methodology.
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.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Overture. The New History: Its Past and its Future
p. 1
History from Below
p. 25
Women's History
p. 43
Overseas History
p. 71
On Microhistory
p. 97
Oral History
p. 120
History of Reading
p. 157
Visual History
p. 187
History of Political Thought
p. 218
History of the Body Reconsidered
p. 233
Environmental History
p. 261
History of Events and the Revival of Narrative
p. 283
Index
p. 301
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