Alun Munslow 
The New History [EPUB ebook] 

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The notion of  »history » has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world »s leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further.

Alun Munslow re-assesses history in the light of post-modernism and other intellectual challenges which have questioned the primacy of the modernist epistemology of empiricism. In an original and stimulating vision of history that will intrigue all those seriously interested in the subject, Munslow argues that history is not only about the sources, but a literary construction.

Munslow concludes that history, as a cultural narrative about the past can never tell us what the past really means. This far reaching conclusion is based on the radical idea that the content of history is defined as much by the nature of the language used to represent and interpret that content as it is by research into the sources. This suggests that history does not produce the most likely meaning of the past but rather can only generate alternative meanings.

The lead volume in a major new series on historical thinking and practice, this is an accessible yet absorbing study that breaks new ground in discussing the stage history is at now, and perhaps most engagingly, the direction it will take in the future.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 244 ● ISBN 9781317873587 ● Maison d’édition Taylor and Francis ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5316587 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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