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Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in
school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at
university level. History as an academic discipline has
dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by
ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and
historians' incorporation of their own reflections into their work.
Doing History presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do'
history today, covering arguments about the nature of historical
knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can
ever really know what happened in the past, what sources historians
depend on, and the relative value of popular and academic
histories. This revised edition includes new chapters on public
history and activist histories. It looks at global representations
of the past across the centuries, and provides up-to-date
suggestions for further reading, presenting the reader with a
thorough and current introduction to studying history at an
academic level as well as a pathway to progress this study further.
Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential
volume for all students embarking on the study of history.
Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts
of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01)
including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more
literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural
Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the
diverse roles that the various accounts served - construction of
identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of
political ideologies and geo-political imaginations - it explores
the cultural and socio-political significance the various accounts
had for different audiences. In addition, it interweaves
theoretical reflection with textual analysis. Using the sieges of
Nagykanizsa as a case study, it offers a sophisticated contribution
to ongoing historiographical arguments: namely, how historians
construct hierarchies of primary sources and judge some to be more
truthful, or more valuable, than others; how texts are assigned to
particular genres based on perceived epistemological status - as
story or history, fact or fiction; and the circular role that
historians and their histories play in constructing, reflecting and
reinforcing cultural and political imaginaries.
Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to
contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political
relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that
specifically historical readings of the past are necessary or are
compelled by the force of past events themselves, this book instead
focuses on other forms of past-talk and how they function in
politically empowering ways against social injustices. Challenging
the authority and constraints of academic history over the past,
this book explores various forms of past-talk, including art,
films, activism, memory, nostalgia and archives. Across seven clear
chapters, Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly show how activists and
campaigners have used forms of past-talk to unsettle 'common sense'
thinking about political and social problems, how journalists,
artists, curators, filmmakers and performers have referenced the
past in their practices of advocacy, and how grassroots archivists
help to circulate materials that challenge the power of authorised
institutional archives to determine what gets to count as a
demonstrable feature of the past and whose voices are part of the
'historical record'. Written in a lucid, accessible manner, and
combining insightful critical analysis and philosophical argument
with clear consideration of how different forms of past-talk
influence the narration of pasts in a variety of socio-political
contexts, Liberating Histories is essential reading for students
and scholars with an interest in historiography and the ethical and
political dimensions of the historical discipline.
The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a
historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and
misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent
crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the
early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic
boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources,
however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity,
Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect
that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of
establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often
contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in
this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of
orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by
the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze
conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent
social practices, which facilitated the process of social,
political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion
played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities,
the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and
translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of
research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary
sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and
English within a variety of genres including religious tracts,
diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics,
historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts
and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the
collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new
research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early
modern Mediterranean world.
Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in
school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at
university level. History as an academic discipline has
dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by
ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and
historians' incorporation of their own reflections into their work.
Doing History presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do'
history today, covering arguments about the nature of historical
knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can
ever really know what happened in the past, what sources historians
depend on, and the relative value of popular and academic
histories. This revised edition includes new chapters on public
history and activist histories. It looks at global representations
of the past across the centuries, and provides up-to-date
suggestions for further reading, presenting the reader with a
thorough and current introduction to studying history at an
academic level as well as a pathway to progress this study further.
Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential
volume for all students embarking on the study of history.
The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a
historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and
misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent
crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the
early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic
boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources,
however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity,
Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect
that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of
establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often
contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in
this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of
orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by
the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze
conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent
social practices, which facilitated the process of social,
political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion
played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities,
the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and
translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of
research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary
sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and
English within a variety of genres including religious tracts,
diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics,
historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts
and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the
collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new
research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early
modern Mediterranean world.
Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to
contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political
relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that
specifically historical readings of the past are necessary or are
compelled by the force of past events themselves, this book instead
focuses on other forms of past-talk and how they function in
politically empowering ways against social injustices. Challenging
the authority and constraints of academic history over the past,
this book explores various forms of past-talk, including art,
films, activism, memory, nostalgia and archives. Across seven clear
chapters, Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly show how activists and
campaigners have used forms of past-talk to unsettle 'common sense'
thinking about political and social problems, how journalists,
artists, curators, filmmakers and performers have referenced the
past in their practices of advocacy, and how grassroots archivists
help to circulate materials that challenge the power of authorised
institutional archives to determine what gets to count as a
demonstrable feature of the past and whose voices are part of the
'historical record'. Written in a lucid, accessible manner, and
combining insightful critical analysis and philosophical argument
with clear consideration of how different forms of past-talk
influence the narration of pasts in a variety of socio-political
contexts, Liberating Histories is essential reading for students
and scholars with an interest in historiography and the ethical and
political dimensions of the historical discipline.
Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts
of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01)
including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more
literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural
Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the
diverse roles that the various accounts served - construction of
identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of
political ideologies and geo-political imaginations - it explores
the cultural and socio-political significance the various accounts
had for different audiences. In addition, it interweaves
theoretical reflection with textual analysis. Using the sieges of
Nagykanizsa as a case study, it offers a sophisticated contribution
to ongoing historiographical arguments: namely, how historians
construct hierarchies of primary sources and judge some to be more
truthful, or more valuable, than others; how texts are assigned to
particular genres based on perceived epistemological status - as
story or history, fact or fiction; and the circular role that
historians and their histories play in constructing, reflecting and
reinforcing cultural and political imaginaries.
The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of
nation-state dominated discourses have caused a re-imagination of
the past, and how the past has been re-constructed to accord with
nationalist agendas. Although other works have considered in
general terms how nations are imagined, this collection takes a
different stance and specifically focuses on how 'the past' is used
in such imaginations. This collection was conceived in an
interdisciplinary spirit, drawing insights from art history,
intellectual history, literature, archaeology, heritage studies,
political science, and film studies. The authors combine a
sophisticated theoretical approach with illuminative case studies
from all across the globe, including the Balkans, South Africa,
Rwanda, the Yemen, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Uzbekistan.
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