The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by
both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative
re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's
leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further.
Alun Munslow re-assesses history in the light of post-modernism and
other intellectual challenges which have questioned the primacy of
the modernist epistemology of empiricism. In an original and
stimulating vision of history that will intrigue all those
seriously interested in the subject, Munslow argues that history is
not only about the sources, but a literary construction. Munslow
concludes that history, as a cultural narrative about the past can
never tell us what the past really means. This far reaching
conclusion is based on the radical idea that the content of history
is defined as much by the nature of the language used to represent
and interpret that content as it is by research into the sources.
This suggests that history does not produce the most likely meaning
of the past but rather can only generate alternative meanings. The
lead volume in a major new series on historical thinking and
practice, this is an accessible yet absorbing study that breaks new
ground in discussing the stage history is at now, and perhaps most
engagingly, the direction it will take in the future.
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