In this lively set of interviews, nine well-known scholars closely associated with the international movement for a new socio-cultural history answer questions posed by Maria Lucia G. Pallares-Burke, herself an historian. Among more general details about their lives and education, and their different approaches to history, we find Asa Briggs contemplating the future of the British monarchy, Daniel Roche recounting his experiences of Paris in May 1968, Natalie Zemon Davis discussing McCarthyism, and Carlo Ginzburg engaging with Foucault, Borges and postmodernism.Revealing much about the ways in which our past is articulated and given shape, this is a book which sheds as much light on the figure of the historian as on the writing and meaning of history itself.
- ISBN10 1859846017
- ISBN13 9781859846018
- Publish Date 1 March 2002
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 1 April 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English