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This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative.

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Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history. For the first time, the full range of leading narrative theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, Frank Ankersmit, Seymour Chatman and Gérard Genette have been brought together to explain the narrative-making choices all author-historians make w...

This important new textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualised and practised today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians' working today, the book represents a provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past. From its explicit postmodern position the book addresses the significance of the difference between `the past¿ and `history¿.

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This textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualised and practised today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians' working today, the book represents a provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past.From its explicit postmodern position the book addresses the significance of the difference between ¿the past¿ and ¿history¿.

In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of historical realism,

Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost historians and theorists, this book represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.

Provides an introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas, and theories, which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. This book examines the key concepts for the history through the ideas of leading thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, and Collingwood.

History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative and experimental pieces of historical writing shows there are fascinating and important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. The pieces illustrate the performative and fictive nature of history, that point to new ways of thinking about the past. Fourteen engaging and thought-provoking pieces lead the reader to a deeper understanding of some ...

Provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. This book: assesses the claims of history as a form of 'truthful' explanation, examines the arrival of 'experimental history' and its implications, clarifies the utility of addressing Michael Foucault and Hayden White, and presents an analysis of Frank R Ankersmit's work.

History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative and experimental pieces of historical writing shows there are fascinating and important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. The pieces illustrate the performative and fictive nature of history, that point to new ways of thinking about the past. Fourteen engaging and thought-provoking pieces lead the reader to a deeper understanding of some ...

This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the present. Encompassing a wide range of critical approaches, leading international sport historians reflect on theory, practice, and the future of sport history. They survey the field of sport history since its inception, examine the principles...

Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.

In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of historical realism,

Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost historians and theorists, this book represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.

Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic and historic values must be the central focus for a new interpretation of American culture and ideology. Six major American historical figures are evaluated as products of the conflict between subordinate and dominant influences in American society: steelmaster Andrew Carnegie, l...