Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.
Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women s history, history "from below," the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history."
- ISBN10 027100827X
- ISBN13 9780271008271
- Publish Date 6 January 1992 (first published 9 December 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English