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Unsettling History

Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Alf Ludtke editor Sebastian Jobs editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Campus Verlag

Published:24th Sep '10

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In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric world-view. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. Archival resources, they argue, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation. Narrating, too, is more complicated than it might at first seem, especially as the range of genres available to historians for presenting their findings has expanded in recent years.

ISBN: 9783593388182

Dimensions: 22mm x 13mm x 2mm

Weight: 340g

253 pages