ABSTRACT
This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical practice.
This volume gives a synoptic overview of the last twenty-five years’ theoretical analysis of historical writing, with a critical examination of the central concepts and positions that have been in debate. The collection delineates the emergence of "practice theory" as a possible paradigm for future historical interpretation concerned with questions of agency, experience and the subject.
These complex ideas are introduced to students in this accessible reader, and for teachers and historians too, this survey is an indispensable and timely read.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Discourse and the Problem of Social History
chapter |14 pages
The Determinist Fix
part |79 pages
Self and Agency
chapter |22 pages
The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration
part |87 pages
Experience and Practice