What happened to history? /

Assessing the impact of feminist, black and minority histories.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Willie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Where I'm Coming From; 1. The Tradition Established; The US; Marxists and socialists; 2. War, Cold War and the 1960s Revolution; Cold War; The 1960s revolution; Consequences; The cutting edge; 3. Continuing Revolution or Counter-Revolution?; Adventures of the dialectic
  • social history in the backwash; The French connection; Anglo-American responses; Why postmodernism?; 4. Institutions and Personnel; Teaching; Postgraduates; Employment; Archives; Journals and publishers; Other institutional frameworks.
  • 5. Reality, Representation, Truth and NarrativeBeing and seeing; Historiographical implications; Hayden White and others; Other deconstructionists; Historical emplotment; 6. Grand Narrative; Teleologies; Evolution and culture; Marxism; Nietzsche and Foucault; Grand narrative or long-term explanation?; 7. Identity and Morality; Whose history?; Evaluation in history; Conclusion; Notes; Brief Bibliography; Index.