New Perspectives on Historical Writing
262 pages | 6 x 9 | 1992
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Co-published with Polity Press
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"Peter Burke has assembled a collection of well-written, thoughtful, and highly informative historiographical essays. Historians interested in what their peers in other fields are doing and those who seek to find out ‘what’s doing in history’ will find New Perspectives on Historical Writing well worth reading. . . . Burke must be applauded for assembling such a variety of first-rate essays in so many fields." —Culturefront
"A must for all historians." —Carlo Ginzburg, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women’s history, history "from below," the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.
Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College.