Authoring the Past: Writing and Rethinking History, edited by Alun Munslow

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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, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.

Edited by Alun Munslow and presented in concise digestible essays, the collection covers a broad range of contemporary interests and ideas and offers a rich set of reasoned alternative thoughts on our cultural engagement with times gone by. Emerging from an intensely fertile period of historical thought and practice, Authoring the Past examines the variety of approaches to the discipline that have taken shape during this time and suggests possible future ways of thinking about and interacting with the past. It provides a unique insight into recent debates on the nature and purpose of history and demonstrates that when diverse metaphysical and aesthetic choices are made, the nature of the representation of the past becomes a matter of legitimate dispute. Students, scholars and practitioners of history will find it a stimulating and invaluable resource.

Table of contents

Introduction
Alun Munslow

1. Writing, Rewriting the Beach: an Essay
Greg Dening

2. After History
Keith Jenkins

3. History Is Public or Nothing
Alice Kessler-Harris

4. I am not a baseball historian
Steven A. Reiss

5. Beyond History
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

6. Practices of Historical Narrative
Richard Price

7. More Secondary Modern than Postmodern
Patrick Joyce

8. Rethinking History
Frank Ankersmit

9. Confessions of a Postmodern(?) Historian
Robert A. Rosenstone

10. The Story of My Engagements with the Past
Peter Munz

11. In Search of Ariadne's Thread
Beverley Southgate

12. Invitation to Historians
C. Behan McCullagh

13. An Intellectual Self-Portrait or the Story of a historian
Peter Burke

14. History, the Historian and an Autobiography
Jeremy D. Popkin

15. Invitation to Historians
Alex Macfie

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