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A follow-up to the bestselling The Pursuit of History, this Reader brings together the reflections of a number of major historians on the nature and purpose of their craft.

They illuminate the different governing assumptions - political, social, personal - that have sustained these leading practitioners in their studies, and show how different influences and methodologies have impacted on them.

In so doing, the book not only gives an insight into the great variety of aspirations and convictions that animate History as a discipline, but also brings into focus the key historiographic trends of the English-speaking world since World War II. Key themes which are highlighted include:
The nation
Marxism
Peoples history
Structural history
Gender
Race
Quantitative history
Ranging widely from the earlier traditions and schools to the wake of postmodernism, authors represented include Braudel, Carr, Elton, Himmelfarb, Hobsbawm, Scott and Zeldin.
This Reader provides the core reading for all History and Theory courses.

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Historians on History

Historians on History

Readings edited and introduced by
John Tosh

Second Edition

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited Second edition published in - photo 1

First published 2000

by Pearson Education Limited

Second edition published in Great Britain in 2009

Published 2013

by Routledge
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Copyright 2000, 2009, Taylor & Francis.

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ISBN 13: 978-1-4058-0168-3 (pbk)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Historians on history: readings / edited and introduced by John Tosh. - 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4058-0168-3 (pbk.)
1. History-Philisophy. 2. Historiography. I. Tosh, John.
D16.8.H6241742 2009
901-dc22
2008023720

Set by 35 in 11/13pt Bulmer MT

Contents

This edition has been revised and expanded in the light of comments made by students, colleagues and three very perceptive publishers readers. I have remodelled the section on Race to reflect the broader agenda of Postcolonialism. The content of the section on Peoples History has been adjusted to correspond with its new title, History from Below. The biggest change comes towards the end of the book. In I try to do justice to the Cultural Turn in historical studies, including the considerable current interest in memory. This is at the expense of the extended treatment given in the first edition to the polemics surrounding Postmodernism, now represented by just three extracts. I have made some revisions to the editorial matter, and I have added a guide to further reading.

John Tosh
London, November 2007

Author's
Acknowledgements

This anthology is in many ways a by-product of my book, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (4th edn, Longman, 2006). Many of the debts which I should acknowledge are recorded there. I am particularly grateful to Kathy Castle, Chris Clark, Michael Pinnock, Michael Roper and Bob Shoemaker for their advice on the selection of readings.

I owe a special debt to Andrew MacLennan, formerly of Longman, who enthusiastically welcomed this proposal, and to Heather McCallum for seeing it through to publication.

John Tosh
London, October 1999

Publisher's
Acknowledgements

The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

MARXISM AND HISTORY by Christopher Hill (Copyright Christopher Hill, 1948) Reprinted by permission of A.M. Heath & Co. Ltd; Allan Lane for the article The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in FRENCH CULTURAL HISTORY by Robert Darnton (Penguin Books 1986, 2001). Copyright Robert Darnton, 1984; The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in FRENCH CULTURAL HISTORY by Robert Darnton, Basic Books, 1984. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group; Howard Zinn for extracts from THE POLITICS OF HISTORY, Beacon Press, 1970. Used by kind permission of Howard Zinn; Gisela Bok, Womens History and Gender History in GENDER & HISTORY 1, 1989. Reprinted with permission from Wiley Blackwell; Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for Indian Pasts? by Dipesh Chakrabarty in REPRESENTATIONS . Copyright 1992 by University of California Press Journals. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press Journals in the format Tradebook via Copyright Clearance Center; Extract from pages 111 in Herbert Butterfield, THE ENGLISHMAN AND HIS HISTORY , 1944 Cambridge University Press, reproduced with permission; Carnegie Mellon University for Personal history and the history of the emotions by Theodore Zeldin in JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 15 (1981/2) Peter N. Stearns; University of Chicago Press for extracts from THE GENIUS OF AMERICAN POLITICS by Daniel Boorstin 1953, 1962 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. University of Chicago Press for extracts from History and the Social Sciences by Fernard Braudel in ON HISTORY , 1980, translated by Sarah Matthews 1980 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved; Columbia University Press for Gender: a useful category of historical analysis from GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY by Joan Scott. Copyright 1988 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher and extracts from CULTURAL HISTORY AND POSTMODERNITY: DISCIPLINARY READINGS AND CHALLENGES by Mark Poster. Copyright 1997 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher; Reprinted from Philip Abrams, HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY . Copyright 1982 by Mrs. Sheila Abrams. Used by permission of Cornell University Press and Sheila Abrams; WHAT IS HISTORY? Reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of E.H. Carr. Copyright E.H. Carr 1961; Editions Gallimard for extracts from THE TERRITORY OF THE HISTORIAN , Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Editions Gallimard, Paris, and extracts from BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY: LES LIEUX DE MMOIRE , Pierre Nora Editions Gallimard, Paris; G.R. Elton, THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY , 1st Edition, 1969, Fontana. Copyright G.R. Elton 1969, reproduced with permission of Wiley-Blackwell; C.V. Wedgwood, from The Sense of the Past, the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1957, reprinted in HISTORY AND HOPE , Fontana, 1987. The Principal and Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall., Oxford, on behalf of the Estate of C.V. Wedgwood; From A. Adu Boahen: CLIO AND NATION-BUILDING IN AFRICA , Ghana Universities Press, Accra; Has History ceased to be relevant? by Allan Bullock in THE HISTORIAN 43, 1994. Used by kind permission of the Honourable Adrian Bullock for the Estate of Lord Alan Bullock; J.H. Plumb, THE DEATH OF THE PAST , 1969, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan; Richard Hofstadter, History and the social sciences in VARIETIES OF HISTORY by Fritz Stern, 1970, Palgrave Macmillan. Used by kind permission of Beatrice K. Hofstadter; Manchester University Press for an extract from THE HISTORIANS CRAFT by Marc Bloch Manchester University Press 1954; Methuen Publishing Ltd for New Ages dont begin all at once by Bertolt Brecht (Methuen Publishing, London) and Questions From A Worker Who Reads by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Michael Hamburger) from POEMS 191356 (Methuen Publishing Ltd, London); Oxford University Press for extracts from Richard Cobb, Experiences of an Anglo-French Historian from A SECOND IDENTITY: ESSAYS ON FRANCE AND FRENCH HISTORY (OUP, 1969) by permission of Oxford University Press, extracts from H.R. Trevor-Roper, The Past and the Present: History and Sociology in PAST AND PRESENT 42, 1969. Reproduced with permission of the Past and Present Society, extracts from Lawrence Stone, The revival of narrative: reflections on a new old history in PAST AND PRESENT 85, 1969. Reproduced with permission of the Past and Present Society, and extracts from Gerda Lerner, The Necessity of History from WHY HISTORY MATTERS (OUP, 1982) by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc; Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press India, New Delhi. On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India by Ranajit Guha in SUBALTERN STUDIES I , 1981, Oxford University Press India; Excerpt from History: Professional and lay by H.R. Trevor-Roper ( H.R. Trevor Roper) from HISTORY AND IMAGINATION is reproduced by permission of PFD (www.pfd.co.uk) on behalf of H.R. Trevor-Roper; Womens history, by Joan Scott in Peter Burke (ed.), NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORICAL WRITING . Reproduced by permission of Polity Press; LUDTKE, ALF; THE HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE. 1989 CAMPUS VERLAG GMBH, FRANKFURT/MAIN ENGLISH TRANS. 1995 Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press; From IN RED AND BLACK: MARXIAN EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTHERN AND AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY by Eugene Genovese, copyright 1968, 1969, 1970, l971 by Eugene Genovese. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc; From Beyond chaos: black history and the search for the New Land by Vincent Harding in AMISTAD 1 (1970), Vintage books, a division of Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Vincent Harding, a Professor Emeritus of Religion and Human Transformation, and The Chairperson of The Veterans of Hope Project in Denver, Co at the Iliff School of Theology; From DISORDERLY CONDUCT by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, copyright 1985 by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc; Taylor & Francis Ltd for the poem that begins New Ages dont begin all at once, and Questions of a studious working man by Bertolt Brecht, Copyright (1997) From ( BERTOLT BRECHT: POEMS 19131956 ) by (Bertolt Brecht). Reproduced by permission of Routledge, Inc, a division of Informa plc, extracts from CONTESTED PASTS , Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, Copyright 2003 Routledge. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK, extracts from Histories, empires and the post-colonial moment by Catherine Hall in THE POST-COLONIAL QUESTION: COMMON SKIES, DIVIDED HORIZONS by Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti, extracts from The end of social history?, Patrick Joyce, SOCIAL HISTORY 20, 1995, reprinted by permission of the publisher (Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.informaworld.com), extracts from THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST , Peter Laslett, Copyright 1965 Methuen. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK and Janet Laslett for the Estate of Peter Laslett, and PEOPLES HISTORY AND SOCIALIST THEORY , Raphael Samuel, Copyright 1965 Routledge Journals. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK and Alison Light for the Estate of Raphael Samuel; From TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Copyright 1994 by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc; E.J. Hobsbawm for extracts from the article Marx and History in NEW LEFT REVIEW Journal Issue 143, February 1984 E.J. Hobsbawn 1983/2008; Yale University Press London for Michael Howard, THE LESSONS OF HISTORY , 1989 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved, and Robert William Fogel, Scientific history and traditional history, in WHICH ROAD TO THE PAST? , 1983 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved.

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