Authors: Willie Thompson
ISBN-13: 9780333963395, ISBN-10: 0333963393
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Willie Thompson is Visiting Professor, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
Donald M. MacRaild is Head of History, University of Northumbria
Willie Thompson offers a clear, jargon-free introduction to postmodernist theory and its significant impact on the study of history. This is a hotly-debated topic, and much of the literature is both polemical and inaccessible to the novice. Thompson, however, presents key ideas in a straightforward way, making these debates relevant to students' own work.
Preface and acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | What is 'postmodernism'? | 6 |
2 | The status of historical evidence | 27 |
3 | Problems of representation | 41 |
4 | Representation, narrative and emplotment | 56 |
5 | Michel Foucault - representation and power | 74 |
6 | Representation and relativism, cognitive and moral | 91 |
7 | Representation, metanarratives and microhistories | 107 |
Conclusion | 123 | |
Glossary | 129 | |
Notes | 136 | |
Further reading | 154 | |
Index | 158 |