History in the world /

Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems have posed a challenge to generations of historians, as well as to philosophers and theorists of history. In recent years, views regarding the isolation of academic history from real-world iss...

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Other Authors: Pihlainen, Kalle (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Historians and `the current situation` / Kalle Pihlainen
  • 1. The republic of historians: historians as nation-builders in Estonia (late 1980s-early 1990s) / Marek Tamm
  • 2. The `age of commemoration` as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France / Kenan van de Mieroop
  • 3. Thinking the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy / Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly
  • 4. The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars / Anton Froeyman
  • 5. Calliope's ascent: defragmenting philosophy of history by rhetoric / Rik Peters
  • 6. We are history: the outlines of a quasi-substantive philosophy of history / Zoltán Boldizsár Simor
  • 7. History, power and visual communication artefacts / Katherine Hepworth.