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Title The houses of history : a critical reader in twentieth-century history and theory / selected and introduced by Anna Green & Kathleen Troup.
Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 1999.

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 Purdy-Kresge Library  D 13.2 .H64 1999    CHECKED IN
Description x, 338 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The empiricists -- Marxist historians -- Freud and psychohistory -- The Annales -- Historical sociology -- Quantitative history -- Anthropology and ethnohistorians -- The question of narrative -- Oral history -- Gender and history -- Postcolonial perspectives -- The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism.
Readings: England under the Tudors. Chapter II, Henry VII: securing the dynasty / G.R. Elton -- Exploitation / E.P. Thompson -- The legend of Hitler's childhood / Erik H. Erikson -- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II / Fernand Braudel -- France, Russia, China: a structural analysis of social revolutions / Theda Skocpol -- The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 / Richard Wall -- Yucatec Maya women and the Spanish conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Inga Clendinnen -- The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson -- Gender divisions and class formation in the Birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall -- White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman -- Science and séance: transgressions of gender and genre / Judith R. Walkowitz.
Summary Provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the study of history in the twentieth century. Ranging from Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each chapter begins with an introduction to the particular school, the main protagonists, the critics, and is followed by a useful section of further readings. From the classic, such as G. R. Elton's "England Under the Tudors" and E. P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class, " to the recent, such as Henrietta Whiteman's "White Buffalo Woman" and Judith Walkowitz's "City of Dreadful Delight, " the diverse selections collected here bring together the leading historians and theorists of the century.
Subject Historiography -- History -- 20th century.
History -- Philosophy.
Historians.
Added Author Green, Anna, 1950-
Troup, Kathleen.
ISBN 0814731260
9780814731260
0814731279 (pbk.)
9780814731277 (pbk.)
OCLC # 40417865
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