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Historians on History Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the major histori- ans from the last few decades, Historians on History provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry, illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that have governed and sustained historical theory and practice. John Tosh’s Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey charting the course of historiographical developments since the second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline. The text is composed of readings by historians such as Brau- del, Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public history, microhistory and global history, in addi- tion to established fields like Marxist history, gender history and postcolonialism. Historians on History is essential reading for all students of historiography and historical theory. John Tosh is Professor of History at the University of Roehampton and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of several works on historiogra- phy, notably The Pursuit of History (sixth edition, 2015) and Why History Matters (2008). Historians on History Third edition Readings edited and introduced by John Tosh Third edition published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, John Tosh; individual chapters, the contributors The right of John Tosh to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. First edition published by Pearson Education Limited 2000 Second edition published by Pearson Education Limited 2009 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-05718-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-05720-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-10061-6 (ebk) Typeset in Galliard by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents Preface to the third edition ix A note on the texts x Publisher’s acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 PART I The documentary ideal 13 1 V.H. Galbraith 17 2 Richard Cobb 22 3 Arlette Farge 28 PART II The long view 33 History as progress 35 4 J.H. Plumb 37 5 E.H. Carr 42 The national story 47 6 G.R. Elton 49 7 A. Adu Boahen 53 vi Contents Marxism 59 8 E.J. Hobsbawm 61 9 Eugene Genovese 68 PART III Radical counter-currents 75 History from below 77 10 Raphael Samuel 79 11 Vincent Harding 86 12 Alf Lüdtke 92 Gender 99 13 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 101 14 Joan Scott 107 15 Jeanne Boydston 114 Postcolonialism 121 16 Ranajit Guha 123 17 Dipesh Chakrabarty 129 18 Catherine Hall 135 PART IV The contraction and expansion of scale 143 Microhistory 145 19 Charles Phythian-Adams 147 20 Giovanni Levi 153 Contents vii Transnational and global history 159 21 Thomas Bender 161 22 Sebastian Conrad 165 PART V History as social science 171 Structural history 173 23 Philip Abrams 175 24 E.J. Hobsbawm 180 The authority of numbers 185 25 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 187 26 Robert William Fogel 193 Reactions 199 27 Fernand Braudel 201 28 Lawrence Stone 207 29 Theodore Zeldin 216 PART VI The cultural turn 221 The impact of Postmodernism 223 30 Patrick Joyce 225 31 Joan Scott 232 32 Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob 237 viii Contents The new cultural history 247 33 Mark Poster 249 34 Robert Darnton 256 Memory and culture 263 35 Pierre Nora 265 36 Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone 271 PART VII History and society 279 The uses of history 281 37 Peter Laslett 283 38 Michael Howard 286 39 Howard Zinn 293 Engaging with the public 299 40 Ludmilla Jordanova 301 41 Gerda Lerner 307 Further reading 313 Index 316 Preface to the third edition This book was conceived as a companion to my text, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History, first published in 1984 and now in its sixth edition (Routledge, 2015). Historians on History still fulfils that role, and so the changes I make in new editions of the reader keep pace with revisions to Pursuit. That accounts for the inclusion here of a new section (Part IV) on changing approaches to the issue of scale in historical writing (from microhistory to global history). The other main change in the third edition is that my choice of historians has been moved forward in time. Whereas the first and second editions included readings dating from the 1940s, my starting point is now the 1960s, and recent work since 2010 now finds a place. John Tosh London, November 2016
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