Reckoning with History
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Reckoning with History

Essays on Uses of the Past

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reckoning with History

Essays on Uses of the Past

About this book

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.

Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past.

Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.

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Yes, you can access Reckoning with History by K.J. Kesselring, Matthew Neufeld, K.J. Kesselring,Matthew Neufeld in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Historical Theory & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. 1 Reckoning with the Past: An Appreciation and an Introduction
  7. 2 Historical Guidance for Early Modern English Women and Children
  8. 3 A Persian Mirror for English Magistrates: Thomas Preston’s Cambises and the Coming to Terms with the Marian Past
  9. 4 Reform and Conversion: Contextualizing Richard Stanihurst’s Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577)
  10. 5 The Repertories of the Tower Records: William Bowyer’s Calendars of the English State Papers in the 1560s
  11. 6 Past Plagues and Their Uses in Early Modern England
  12. 7 “Women Worthies” in Eighteenth-Century Historical Culture: Sarah Chapone and George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752)
  13. 8 Abiel Holmes and George Chalmers: Plagiarism and Annals in the American Republic of Letters
  14. 9 William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium
  15. 10 The Jewish Holocaust, Indigenous People, and the Politics of Recognition: A Cautionary Tale
  16. 11 Engaging Right-Wing Populisms: Which Historical Memory for What Kind of Democracy?
  17. Contributors
  18. Index