What Is History Really About?:: Reflections on Theory and Practicereflections on Theory and Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912224128)

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions about the past or help them to answer
old ones.

The second part of the author's work is to illustrate some major new trends in historical practice: the use of images as evidence, for instance, the interest in different attitudes to time, and the increasing awareness of the relation, close or distant, between historians and the past that they study.

Author: Peter Burke
ISBN-10: 1912224127
ISBN-13: 9781912224128
Publisher: Edward Everett Root
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2018
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.49d