The Modern Historiography Reader

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<P>In <EM>The Modern Historiography Reader</EM>, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession, and the impact of scientific principles on history, he then looks at some of the most important developments in twentieth-century historiography such as social history, traumatic memory, postcolonialism, gender history, postmodernism, and the history of material objects. </P><P>This is the only book that brings together historiographical writing from anthropology, literary theory, philosophy, psychology, and sociology ¿ as well as history. Each of the thirteen thematic sections begins with a clear introduction that familiarizes readers with the topics and articles, setting them in their wider contexts. They explain what historiography is, how historians¿ perspectives and s