Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415242541 ISBN 13: 9780415242547

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of the past. It is an exhaustive exploration of the practice of history, historical traditions and the theories that surround them. Discussing the development and growth of history as a discipline and of the profession of the historian, the book encompasses a huge diversity of influences, organized around the following themes:

• the professionalization of the discipline
• the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales School
• the increasing interdisciplinary trends in scholarship
• theory in historical practice including Marxism, post-modernism and gender history
• historical practice outside the academy.

The volume offers a coherent set of chapters to support undergraduates, postgraduates and others interested in the historical processes that have shaped the discipline of history.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Lambert is Lecturer in History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and has published on historiography.
Phillipp Schofield is Lecturer in History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the author of Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415242541
• ISBN 13: 9780415242547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Peter Lambert, Philipp Schofield