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Unsettling history : archiving and narrating in historiography / Sebastian Jobs, Alf Lüdtke (eds.).

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D13 .U57 2010

Overview

Variant Title: Archiving and narrating in historiography
Format: Book
Published: Frankfurt ; New York : Campus, [2010]
©2010
Contents: Memories of things future: effects in "the production of history" / David William Cohen
Multiple narratives: scale and discontinuity in history / Jacques Revel
Empire, ethics, and the calling of history: knowledge in the postcolony / Dipesh Cahkravarty
OldBeijing.net: a Chinese virtual "Heimatmuseum" / Michael Schoenhals
Ranke in the lobby of the archive: metaphors and conditions of historical research / Phillipp Müller
Archiving a life: post-Shoah paradoxes of memory legacies / Leora Auslander
At large in the "gray zone": narrating the Romani Holocaust / Eve Rosenhaft
Getting personal : on subjectivity in historical practice / Sheila Fitzpatrick
Narrating the siege of Leningrad: official and unofficial practices in the unofficial practices in the memorialization of the "great patriotic war" / Andrea Zemskov-Züge
Masterlore: reflections on an ancient genre in the new world / Rhys Isaac
Moving bones: unsettled histories in South Africa and the return of Sarah Baartman / Gesine Krüger.
Other Authors/Editors: Jobs, Sebastian.
Lüdtke, Alf, 1943-2019.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Memories of things future: effects in "the production of history" / David William Cohen -- Multiple narratives: scale and discontinuity in history / Jacques Revel -- Empire, ethics, and the calling of history: knowledge in the postcolony / Dipesh Cahkravarty -- OldBeijing.net: a Chinese virtual "Heimatmuseum" / Michael Schoenhals -- Ranke in the lobby of the archive: metaphors and conditions of historical research / Phillipp Müller -- Archiving a life: post-Shoah paradoxes of memory legacies / Leora Auslander -- At large in the "gray zone": narrating the Romani Holocaust / Eve Rosenhaft -- Getting personal : on subjectivity in historical practice / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Narrating the siege of Leningrad: official and unofficial practices in the unofficial practices in the memorialization of the "great patriotic war" / Andrea Zemskov-Züge -- Masterlore: reflections on an ancient genre in the new world / Rhys Isaac -- Moving bones: unsettled histories in South Africa and the return of Sarah Baartman / Gesine Krüger.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9783593388182
3593388189
Physical Description: 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Historiography. History--Archival resources. Narration (Rhetoric) Objectivity.

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