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Well-written and engaging, this book deals with complex and
wide-ranging material in a clear and accessible way and is
up-to-date with current historiographical trends, such as digital
history which students need to know about. It also includes a
companion website which augments the features, such as marginal
glosses, in the text, ensuring it is user-friendly for students
Offers a clear and up-to-date text on historiography, something
students on all history degrees are required to engage with.
Updated with current historiographical trends, such as digital
history, and scholarship which ensures it remains useful for
students and retains its market leader position.
Well-written and engaging, this book deals with complex and
wide-ranging material in a clear and accessible way and is
up-to-date with current historiographical trends, such as digital
history which students need to know about. It also includes a
companion website which augments the features, such as marginal
glosses, in the text, ensuring it is user-friendly for students
Offers a clear and up-to-date text on historiography, something
students on all history degrees are required to engage with.
Updated with current historiographical trends, such as digital
history, and scholarship which ensures it remains useful for
students and retains its market leader position.
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity
has become an important dimension of social and cultural history.
John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the
beginning, having written A Man's Place: Masculinity and the
Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful
Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991). Here he
brings together nine key articles which he has written over the
past ten years. These pieces document the aspirations of the first
contributors to the field, and the development of an agenda of key
historical issues which have become central to our conceptualising
of gender in history. Later essays take up the issue of
periodisation and the relationship of masculinity to other
historical identities and structures, particularly in the context
of the family. The last two essays, published for the first time,
approach British imperial history in a fresh way. They argue that
the empire needs to be seen as a specifically male enterprise,
answering to masculine aspirations and insecurities. This leads to
illuminating insights into the nature of colonial emigration and
the popular investment in empire during the era the New
Imperialism.
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity
has become an important dimension of social and cultural history.
John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the
beginning, having written A Man's Place: Masculinity and the
Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful
Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991). Here he
brings together nine key articles which he has written over the
past ten years. These pieces document the aspirations of the first
contributors to the field, and the development of an agenda of key
historical issues which have become central to our conceptualising
of gender in history. Later essays take up the issue of
periodisation and the relationship of masculinity to other
historical identities and structures, particularly in the context
of the family. The last two essays, published for the first time,
approach British imperial history in a fresh way. They argue that
the empire needs to be seen as a specifically male enterprise,
answering to masculine aspirations and insecurities. This leads to
illuminating insights into the nature of colonial emigration and
the popular investment in empire during the era the New
Imperialism.
Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the
major historians from the last few decades, Historians on History
provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry,
illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that
have governed and sustained historical theory and practice. John
Tosh's Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey
charting the course of historiographical developments since the
second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the
academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline.
The text is composed of readings by historians such as Braudel,
Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third
edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its
starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public
history, microhistory and global history, in addition to
established fields like Marxist history, gender history and
postcolonialism. Historians on History is essential reading for all
students of historiography and historical theory.
Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the
major historians from the last few decades, Historians on History
provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry,
illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that
have governed and sustained historical theory and practice. John
Tosh's Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey
charting the course of historiographical developments since the
second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the
academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline.
The text is composed of readings by historians such as Braudel,
Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third
edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its
starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public
history, microhistory and global history, in addition to
established fields like Marxist history, gender history and
postcolonialism. Historians on History is essential reading for all
students of historiography and historical theory.
Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history.
In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class,
John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the
Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.
Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life,
sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth
century-illustrated by case studies representing a variety of
backgrounds-and then contrasts this with the lives of the late
Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a
new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience
of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical
Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice,
however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for
most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern
indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with
the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by
law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor
world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians
declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be
active participants in domestic life. In exposing the
contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender
politics in the next century.
Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if
so, what practical relevance does it have? In this fully revised
second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh persuasively argues
that history is central to an informed and critical understanding
of topical issues in the present. Including a range of contemporary
examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the impact of the
internet, this is an important and practical introduction for all
students of history. Inspiring and empowering, this book provides
both students and general readers with a stimulating and practical
rationale for the study of history. It is essential reading for all
undergraduate students of history who require an engaging
introduction to the subject. New to this Edition: - Illustrative
examples and case studies are fully updated - Features a postscript
on British historians and Brexit - Bibliography is heavily revised
Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the traditional subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all changing forms.;The contributors draw on literature, cultural studies and sociology to explore the history and representations of masculinity from 1800 to the 1980s, with examples ranging from Thomas Carlyle and the 19th-century "man of letters" to the post-World War II "company man". Making men visible as gendered subjects within the accepted historical categories of family, business and labour, class and nation, the text describes how - in the past as in the contemporary world - masculinities need to be understood as subjective identity, as social power and as cultural representation.
The political history of an East African stateless society
c.1800-1939.
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