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Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why. Adventures of a Postmodern Historian chronicles Rosenstone's research journeys over half a century. Beginning in the 1960s, his offbeat trajectory took him on adventures through the police states of Franco Spain and the Soviet Union, to the Shinto shrines and Zen temples of Japan and ultimately to Hollywood. Alongside his own memoirs, Rosenstone reflects upon developments and changes within the realm of professional history, which in turn reflect the social, cultural, and intellectual shifts of the late 20th century. A pioneer of experimental and creative history, he suggests how the experience of the historian can inflect the written history, and provides a defence of innovation in historical writing that is both intellectually rigorous and entertaining. In doing so he offers a window into the state of history today â and points to exciting new ways of writing the past. This is a book about the craft of history, about both doing research and writing it. It should be required reading for all historians.
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9781474274210 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 22, 2016, cover price $112.00
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9781474274227 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 22, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned.
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9781784784560 | Verso Books, April 26, 2016, cover price $24.95
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9781474222983 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 28, 2016, cover price $112.00
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9781474222976 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 28, 2016, cover price $29.95
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9781782389859 | Berghahn Books, December 31, 2015, cover price $120.00
Product Description: E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources...read more
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9781138934405, titled "Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention" | Routledge, August 11, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: E.
Product Description: This new study re-examines the relationship between the beginnings of the modern historical profession and the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth century. The monograph analyzes the founding father of modern historiography Leopold von Ranke and his evolution as an historian, his self-perception and his increasingly dominant perceptions of the historian's craft and role in society and politics...read more
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9781936320691 | Academica Pr Llc, April 30, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This new study re-examines the relationship between the beginnings of the modern historical profession and the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth century.
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9781118294857 | Blackwell Pub, April 7, 2014, cover price $105.00
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9781118294840 | Blackwell Pub, April 7, 2014, cover price $43.95
Product Description: Henri Pirenne (1862â1935) was a Belgian historian of international stature. He had an intellectual reputation that extended far beyond the borders of his own country. The Histoire de Belgique, which he published in the early decades of the twentieth century, was regarded as a model of innovative national history...read more
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9789058678850 | Leuven Univ Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Henri Pirenne (1862â1935) was a Belgian historian of international stature.
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9781595340849 | Trinity Univ Pr, November 8, 2011, cover price $29.95
9781929490417 | Frederic C Beil, October 27, 2011, cover price $26.95
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