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Price: $185.00

Format:
Hardback 720 pp.
7 maps, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0199225990

ISBN-13:
9780199225996

Publication date:
May 2011

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945

Edited by Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf

Series : Oxford History of Historical Writing

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing 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. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past across the globe from the beginning of writing to the present day.

Readership : Suitable for specialists in history, literature, cultural studies, and world history and historiography, and students of history and interested laypersons.

Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf: Editors' Introduction
1. Chris Lorenz: History and Theory
2. Alon Confino: History and Memory
3. Antoon De Baets: Censorship and History since 1945
4. Gyan Prakash: Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies
5. Jürgen Osterhammel: World History
6. Peer Vries: Global Economic History: A Survey
7. Julie Des Jardins: Women's and Gender History
8. J. R. McNeill: The Historiography of Environmental History
9. Seymour Mauskopf and Alex Roland: The Historiography of Science and Technology
10. Kevin Passmore: History and Social Science in the West
11. Stefan Berger: From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing
12. Maciej Górny: Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
13. Matthias Middell: French Historical Writing
14. Michael Bentley: British Historical Writing
15. Rolf Torstendahl: Scandinavian Historical Writing
16. Stuart Woolf: Italian Historical Writing
17. Ulf Brunnbauer: Historical Writing in the Balkans
18. Denis Kozlov: Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia
19. Toyin Falola: African Historical Writing
20. Joel Horowitz: Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability
21. Marshall C. Eakin: Brazilian Historical Writing
22. Guillermo Zermeño Padilla: Mexican Historical Writing
23. Ian Tyrell: American Historical Writing
24. Youssef M. Choueiri: Arab Historical Writing
25. Supriya Mukherjee: Indian Historical Writing since 1947
26. Patrick Jory: Thai Historical Writing
27. Patricia Pelley: Vietnamese Historical Writing
28. Ann Kumar: Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence
29. Bain Attwood: Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia
30. Susan Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: Chinese Historical Writing since 1949
31. Sebastian Conrad: Japanese Historical Writing
32. Henry Em: Historians and Historical Writing in Korea
Allan Megill: Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing

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Axel Schneider was born in Germany. Educated at Erlangen University, National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Bochum University he has taught at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Leiden (The Netherlands), National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Beijing University. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Modern China Studies at Göttingen University, where is currently also serving as Director of the Göttingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. Editor of the Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, he has published widely in German, English, and Chinese on modern Chinese historical writing. Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of the Oxford History of Historical Writing, he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously also edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998).

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Special Features

  • Includes timelines and select bibliographies of key primary and secondary sources.
  • Essays by an international team of scholars.
  • Thematic chapters on the connection of history with other disciplines.