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Thinking About History by Sarah C. Maza is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Thinking About History about?

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives. The history of whom? History from above: Great men and a few women ; Social history and quantification ; E.P. Thompson's historical revolution ; Resist

Who reads Thinking About History?

Author

Sarah C. Maza

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226109169

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (179 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14