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With its innovative format, __Debating New Approaches to History__ addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at topics such as the importance and consequences of the 'digital turn' in history (what will history writing be like in a digital age?), the challenge of posthumanist theory for history writing (how do we write the history of non-humans?) and the possibilities of moving beyond traditional sources in history and establishing a dialogue with genetics and neurosciences (what are the perspectives and limits of the so-called 'neurohistory'?). It also revisits older debates in history which remain crucial, such as what the gender approach can offer to historical research or how to write history on a global scale. __Debating New Approaches to History__ does not just provide a useful overview of the n

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Author

Marek Tamm (editor), Peter Burke (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474281911

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, History