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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewThe Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas
Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction ; 1. History and Theory ; 2. History and Memory ; 3. Censorship and History since 1945 ; 4. Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies ; 5. World History ; 6. Global Economic History: A Survey ; 7. Women's and Gender History ; 8. The Historiography of Environmental History ; 9. The Historiography of Science and Technology ; 10. History and Social Science in the West ; 11. From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing ; 12. Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary ; 13. French Historical Writing ; 14. British Historical Writing ; 15. Scandinavian Historical Writing ; 16. Italian Historical Writing ; 17. Historical Writing in the Balkans ; 18. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia ; 19. African Historical Writing ; 20. Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability ; 21. Brazilian Historical Writing ; 22. Mexican Historical Writing ; 23. American Historical Writing ; 24. Arab Historical Writing ; 25. Indian Historical Writing since 1947 ; 26. Thai Historical Writing ; 27. Vietnamese Historical Writing ; 28. Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence ; 29. Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia ; 30. Chinese Historical Writing since 1949 ; 31. Japanese Historical Writing ; 32. Historians and Historical Writing in Korea ; Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing
