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1 online resource (196 pages) |
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| Series |
Making Sense of History
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Making sense of history.
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| Summary |
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive 'linguistic' turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current s. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Preface to the Series; Foreword -- Imagination and Fact: A Lover's Quarrel; Introduction -- The Quarrel Begins . . .; Chapter 1 -- Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of History; Chapter 2 -- Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and Memory; Chapter 3 -- Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian's Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading; Afterword -- The Quarrel Continues . . .; Bibliography; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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Historiography -- Political aspects.
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Historiography -- Social aspects.
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Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Romanticism.
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Representation (Philosophy)
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History -- Study and teaching.
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romanticism (form of expression) |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Historiography -- Political aspects. |
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Historiography -- Social aspects. |
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History -- Philosophy. |
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History -- Study and teaching. |
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Representation (Philosophy) |
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Romanticism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780857454843 |
| ISBN |
9780857454850 (electronic bk.) |
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0857454854 (electronic bk.) |
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1283571870 |
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9781283571876 |
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9786613884329 |
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6613884324 |
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9780857454843 (hbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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0857454846 (hbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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