Studying History (Macmillan Study Guide) (Second edition)

Cover\r......Page 1
Contents\r......Page 8
GENERAL EDITORS’PREFACE......Page 12
AUTHORS’ PREFACE......Page 14
PART I......Page 16
1.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 18
1.2 THE USES OF HISTORY......Page 20
1.3 HISTORY AND THE NATIONAL MYTH......Page 22
1.4 COMPETING HISTORIES......Page 24
1.5 HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY......Page 25
1.6 IDEOLOGY AND THE HISTORIANS......Page 27
1.7 IDEOLOGY AND SOURCES......Page 28
1.8 HISTORY AND TIME......Page 29
1.9 THE RELATIVITY OF TIME AND CHANGE......Page 31
1.10 HISTORY AS ‘PROBLEMS’......Page 34
1.11 THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIPTIONAND ANALYSIS......Page 35
1.12 THE PROBLEM OF CONTROVERSYAND DEBATE......Page 36
1.13 CONCLUSIONS......Page 38
2.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 40
2.2 EARLY HISTORY......Page 42
2.3 BEYOND EUROPE......Page 44
2.4 THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND HISTORY......Page 45
2.5 THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISHTRADITION......Page 48
2.6 THE WHIG TRADITION......Page 49
2.7 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION......Page 50
2.8 ‘HISTORY FOR BELOW’......Page 51
2.9 CONNECTING THE EIGHTEENTH ANDNINETEENTH CENTURIES......Page 53
2.10 THE AGE OF RANKE......Page 55
2.11 NON-EUROPEAN EMPIRICAL TRADITIONS......Page 57
2.12 POSITIVISM......Page 58
2.14 CONTINENTAL INNOVATIONS......Page 61
2.15 THE NEW WORLD......Page 63
2.16 CONCLUSIONS......Page 65
3.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 67
3.2 THE HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF SOCIALAND ECONOMIC HISTORY......Page 69
3.3 SOCIAL HISTORY: GREEN AND TREVELYAN......Page 70
3.4 A TIDE OF REACTION? THE EMERGENCE OFMODERN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY......Page 72
3.5 THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDUSTRIALREVOLUTION......Page 73
3.6 J. H. CLAPHAM......Page 75
3.7 LEWIS NAMIER AND R. H. TAWNEY......Page 76
3.8 RUSSIA AND THE USSR......Page 79
3.9 A CONTINENTAL REVOLUTION? THE EARLYANNALES SCHOOL IN FRANCE......Page 81
3.10 DEVELOPMENTS AFTER THE SECONDWORLD WAR......Page 85
3.11 COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES......Page 86
3.13 FRANCE AND THE POST-WAR ANNALESSCHOOL......Page 88
3.14 THE 1960S: ‘REAL’ NEW DIRECTIONS INHISTORY?......Page 90
3.15 LATER ANNALES AND ‘NEW ECONOMICHISTORY’......Page 92
3.17 A DIFFUSION OF IDEAS? HISTORY TO THEPRESENT DAY......Page 94
3.18 CONCLUSIONS......Page 98
PART II......Page 100
4.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 102
4.2 HISTORIANS AND SOURCES......Page 104
4.3 LOCAL HISTORY......Page 107
4.4 TRADITIONAL HISTORY......Page 110
4.5 COMPARATIVE HISTORY......Page 119
4.6 ‘HISTORY FROM BELOW’......Page 124
4.7 CULTURAL HISTORY, OR THE HISTORY OFMENTALITIES......Page 129
4.8 QUANTITATIVE HISTORY......Page 134
4.9 COUNTERFACTUAL OR ‘WHAT IF?’ HISTORY......Page 139
4.10 CONCLUSIONS......Page 142
5.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 144
5.2 HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY......Page 145
5.3 THE HISTORICAL PROCESS......Page 149
5.4 MARXISM......Page 150
5.5 CLASS, STRUCTURE AND AGENCY......Page 155
5.6 GENDER......Page 160
5.7 COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY......Page 164
5.8 ETHNICITY......Page 168
5.9 IDEOLOGY AND MENTALITY......Page 172
5.10 HISTORY AND THE CHALLENGE OFPOST-MODERNISM......Page 176
PART III......Page 184
6.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 186
6.2 READING......Page 187
6.3 NOTE-TAKING......Page 188
6.4 THE KINDS OF WORKS YOU READ......Page 190
6.5 EFFECTIVE READING......Page 192
6.6 THE STRUCTURE OF READING HISTORY......Page 195
6.7 USING THE SOURCES YOU READ......Page 197
6.8 CONCLUSIONS......Page 203
7.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 204
7.2 WRITING: SOME GENERAL POINTS......Page 205
7.3 WRITING AN ESSAY......Page 209
7.4 STATEMENT AND EVIDENCE......Page 215
7.5 CONCLUSIONS......Page 218
8.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 220
8.2 CHOOSING A TOPIC AND PRELIMINARY WORK......Page 221
8.3 GROUNDWORK FOR DISSERTATIONS......Page 225
8.4 WRITING THE DISSERTATION......Page 227
8.5 CONCLUSIONS......Page 230
9.2 PREPARING PROPERLY......Page 231
9.3 TOPIC ASSESSMENT......Page 232
9.4 REVISION PROPER......Page 233
9.6 THE QUESTION......Page 235
9.7 CONCLUSIONS......Page 238
AFTERWORD......Page 240
SUGGESTIONS FORFURTHER READING......Page 242
INDEX......Page 250