Britain and Europe Since 1945 - Historiographical Perspectives on Integration (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)

This text offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since World War II as a case study, the author demonstrates how its interpretation and and reportage over time is subject to changing trends. Seeking to explain these trends in terms of the different conceptions of the past which are maintained by different schools of writing, it forces us to confront the fundamental difficulties we encounter in undertaking studies in history. It draws attention to the impact on historical interpretation of changing times, political discourse, the opening of archives, and of subjects being brought to the fore by professional historians. constructing the past and in creating its narratives. Furthermore, it asserts that historiography is riddled with politics at all levels and that to write the historian out of tests is to represent what it entails to write history. In so doing, it demonstrates how the philosophy of history has a direct bearing upon the everyday practice of history. thinking about and understanding history. It should appeal to international historians, those interested in history as a form of philosophical inquiry, to students of European integration history and the Cold War, and to British foreign policy-makers.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2004
First published:	April 2004
Authors:	Oliver J. Daddow
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6137-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	0-7190-6137-7
Barcode:	9780719061370

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