History and Identity
“History and Identity” by Stefan Berger, published by Cambridge University Press on January 20, 2022, is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice. This 493-page book explores how issues of identity have influenced the writing of history, highlighting the emergence of self-reflexivity within the historical profession. Berger examines key trends in historical theory, including postmodernism, poststructuralism, and narrativism, and discusses their impact on the methodologies historians have employed over the past four decades.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of various forms of history writing, ranging from traditional approaches like political and social history to newer fields such as gender history and historical anthropology. The book also addresses the significance of memory, visual history, and material culture in shaping historical narratives. By engaging with these diverse topics, “History and Identity” provides insights into the evolving landscape of historiography and the ways in which contemporary debates about the past inform our understanding of the present.
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This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, constructivism, narrativism and the linguistic turn and reveals, in turn, the ways in which they have transformed how historians have written history over the last four decades. The book ranges widely from more traditional forms of history writing, such as political, social, economic, labour and cultural history, to the emergence of more recent fields, including gender history, historical anthropology, the history of memory, visual history, the history of material culture, and comparative, transnational and global history.
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