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The Impact of History? : Histories at the Beginning of the 21st Century.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317537212
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 907.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Doing history in public? Historians in the age of impact -- Why are we writing this book? -- The historian's craft -- Doing history in public -- Conclusion: Can the impact of history be measured? -- Notes -- 2. The genealogy boom: Inheritance, family history and the popular historical imagination -- Is this a problem? What is at stake here? -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 3. History 2.0: History, publics and new technologies -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 4. The humanities and public service broadcasting: A history film-maker's view -- Biography: Christina: A Medieval Life (2009) -- The longue durée: Conquistadors (2000) -- Dramatizing the past: The Story of India (2007) -- Micro-history: The Story of England (2010) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. From Roy Jenkins downwards: The historian/journalist and journalist/historian in contemporary Britain -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 6. The return of national history -- The end of communism in Eastern Europe and the revival of historiographical nationalism -- Historiographical nationalism in multinational states in Western Europe -- What national narratives for the twenty-first century? -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 7. History, memory and civic education -- The colonial republic -- Connected histories -- The slave in the Louvre: An invisible humanity -- History and civic education -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 8. 'Different and better times'? History, progress and inequality -- Conclusion -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 9. Campaigning histories -- The trades union movement -- Occupy -- Protest and the performativity of the past -- Suggested further reading -- Notes.
10. History, science and environment policy -- The historical conditioning of science and environmental policy -- Scientific knowledge and cultural choice in environmental policy -- Shared concerns and collective approaches -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 11. History and practitioners: The use of history by humanitarians and potential benefits of history to the humanitarian sector -- The uses of history for humanitarian action -- Factors contributing to the demand for and supply of humanitarian history -- Using humanitarian history in practice -- The use of history by the military -- Building a more historical culture in the humanitarian sector -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 12. The impact of the state -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices who open up questions and raise issues and controversies for discussion. The chapters are articulated around the themes of the publics of history, the politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning and the situation of history in the changing world of education. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in contemporary society.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Doing history in public? Historians in the age of impact -- Why are we writing this book? -- The historian's craft -- Doing history in public -- Conclusion: Can the impact of history be measured? -- Notes -- 2. The genealogy boom: Inheritance, family history and the popular historical imagination -- Is this a problem? What is at stake here? -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 3. History 2.0: History, publics and new technologies -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 4. The humanities and public service broadcasting: A history film-maker's view -- Biography: Christina: A Medieval Life (2009) -- The longue durée: Conquistadors (2000) -- Dramatizing the past: The Story of India (2007) -- Micro-history: The Story of England (2010) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. From Roy Jenkins downwards: The historian/journalist and journalist/historian in contemporary Britain -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 6. The return of national history -- The end of communism in Eastern Europe and the revival of historiographical nationalism -- Historiographical nationalism in multinational states in Western Europe -- What national narratives for the twenty-first century? -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 7. History, memory and civic education -- The colonial republic -- Connected histories -- The slave in the Louvre: An invisible humanity -- History and civic education -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 8. 'Different and better times'? History, progress and inequality -- Conclusion -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 9. Campaigning histories -- The trades union movement -- Occupy -- Protest and the performativity of the past -- Suggested further reading -- Notes.

10. History, science and environment policy -- The historical conditioning of science and environmental policy -- Scientific knowledge and cultural choice in environmental policy -- Shared concerns and collective approaches -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 11. History and practitioners: The use of history by humanitarians and potential benefits of history to the humanitarian sector -- The uses of history for humanitarian action -- Factors contributing to the demand for and supply of humanitarian history -- Using humanitarian history in practice -- The use of history by the military -- Building a more historical culture in the humanitarian sector -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- 12. The impact of the state -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Suggested further reading -- Notes -- Index.

Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices who open up questions and raise issues and controversies for discussion. The chapters are articulated around the themes of the publics of history, the politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning and the situation of history in the changing world of education. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in contemporary society.

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