The Association Between Postmodernistic Trends and Historical Scholarship With Implications for the College-Level Teaching of History
Description:
The debates among historians regarding the "crisis in history" have been directed to various problems. The fragmentation of historical scholarship and writing embodied in the "new history," the alleged overspecialization of historical scholarship, and recent challenges to the objectivity of historical fact and interpretation receive attention. Successive chapters attend to a general background study and description of postmodernism, the association between postmodernistic trends and historical …
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Date:
December 1990
Creator:
Summers, Jerry L. (Jerry Lynn)