This essential new collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical practice. The volume gives a synoptic overview of the last twenty-five years'...(展开全部)

Review History, Theory, Text offers a survey of the debates that have surrounded the discipline of history from the late-nineteenth up to the twenty-first century...This work certainly makes a valuable "contribution"...to the short list of the studies in which trade historians look at the debates surrounding their own practice. The book should thus appeal to Clark's colleagues,...(展开全部)

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），英国历史学家，当代著名新文化史家。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽尔学院研究员。著有《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》《历史学与社会理论》《制造路易十四》《知识社会史》《图像证史》《什么是文化史》《近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》等。 薛向君，江苏警官学院教授，历史学博士，公安部国际合作局国别与区域研究专家。主要从事国际执法合作、跨国犯罪研究。译著有《警务中的法则》《问题地点监控》《警务网》等。

The way in which history is written has changed quite dramatically - so much so that the phrase ?the new history? is now commonly used by historians. But what is the new history and how ?new? is it? Is it a temporary fashion or a long-term trend? Will it - or should it - replace traditional history, or can the two coexist in peace? This second edition of New Perspect...(展开全部)

Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.Peter Burke is j...(展开全部)

What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that have long justified comparison’s use: that cases can be unproblematically compared as though they are independent of one another, that comparison can reliably yield valid causal inference, and that comparative methods can grap...(展开全部)

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authorit...(展开全部)