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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part I What is history?
• 1 Introduction
• Is history the same as the past?
• Why study history?
• What are the functions of history?
• What is historiography?
• Notes
• Further reading
• 2 Pre-modern historians on history
• History in the ancient world
• Pre-modern Islamic history
• Early modern Ottoman historians
• Progressive, linear history and modernity
• Notes
• Further reading
• 3 Academic history
• Nationalism, Ranke and history in the university
• Reconstructionist history
• History from below – social science-influenced, constructionist history
• Marxism and socio-economic approaches to history
• The Annales school
• Postmodernism, deconstructionism and the re-imagination of history writing
• Voices: whose past is told?
• Notes
• Further reading
• Part II What historians do
• 4 Using sources
• What are primary and secondary sources?
• How do historians use sources?
• Do primary sources provide access to the past?
• Notes
• Further reading
• 5 Creating historical knowledge
• What is the historical method?
• Does the historical method ensure that our knowledge of the past is objective and true?
• Responses to postmodern challenges
• Plural pasts and Rortian pragmatism: an alternative view of historical knowledge
• How can we distinguish between good and bad history?
• Notes
• Further reading
• 6 Writing histories: Historical interpretations and imagination
• What kinds of questions do historians answer?
• Are there ‘right answers’ to historical questions?
• What is the role of imagination in history writing?
• Why do historians disagree with each other?
• Notes
• Further reading
• Part III Whose history?
• 7 The power of history
• Colonial history
• Nationalist history
• The history curriculum – who decides what is taught and why?
• The power of the professional historian
• The power of the archive
• The myth of history for its own sake
• Notes
• Further reading
• 8 Histories from another perspective
• Introduction
• Non-Eurocentric history
• Postcolonial history
• Feminist and LGBTQ+ history
• Black history
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Further reading
• 9 Popular history
• History without historians
• Digital histories
• Screening the past
• Past presencing
• Notes
• Further reading
• Part IV History today
• 10 Public history
• What is public history?
• The heritage industry
• What is shared authority?
• Collective memory
• Notes
• Further reading
• 11 Liberating history
• Ethical meditations, identity and activism
• The end of history? Vernacular forms of past-talk
• Colonial trophies
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index