Debating New Approaches to History

With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is fol...

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With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field and the author's response.

The volume looks at topics such as the importance and consequences of the 'digital turn' in history (what will history writing be like in a digital age?), the challenge of posthumanist theory for history writing (how do we write the history of non-humans?) and the possibilities of moving beyond traditional sources in history and establishing a dialogue with genetics and neurosciences (what are the perspectives and limits of the so-called 'neurohistory'?). It also revisits older debates in history which remain crucial, such as what the gender approach can offer to historical research or how to write history on a global scale.

Debating New Approaches to History does not just provide a useful overview of the new approaches to history it covers, but also offers insights into current historical debates and the process of historical method in the making. It demonstrates how the discipline of history has responded to challenges in society – such as digitalization, globalization and environmental concerns – as well as in humanities and social sciences, such as the 'material turn', 'visual turn' or 'affective turn'. This is a key volume for all students of historiography wanting to keep their finger on the pulse of contemporary thinking in historical research.

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities in Tallinn University, Estonia. He is also Head of Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies. His publications in English include an edited volume, Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015) and Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval B...

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Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities in Tallinn University, Estonia. He is also Head of Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies. His publications in English include an edited volume, Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015) and Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, 2011).

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Life Fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has published 26 books, and his work has so far been translated into 33 languages. His publications include History and Social Theory (1992, revised edition 2005) and an edited book, New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1991, revised edition 2000).

Introduction, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia)
1. Global History
Contributor: Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Canada)
2. Environmental History
Contributor: Grégory Quénet (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France)
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Introduction, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia)
1. Global History
Contributor: Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Canada)
2. Environmental History
Contributor: Grégory Quénet (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France)
Commentator: Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden)
3. Gender History
Contributor: Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute, Italy; EHESS, France)
Commentator: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
4. Postcolonial History
Contributor: Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago, USA)
Commentator: Prasenjit Duara (Duke University, USA)
5. History of Memory
Contributor: Geoffrey Cubitt (University of York, UK)
Commentator: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
6. History of Emotions
Contributor: Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Commentator: Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
7. History of Knowledge
Contributor: Martin Mulsow (Erfurt University, Germany)
Commentator: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
8. History of Things
Contributor: Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, USA)
Commentator: Bjørnar Olsen (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway)
9. History of Visual Culture
Contributor: Gil Bartholeyns (Université de Lille 3, France)
Commentator: Jean-Claude Schmitt (EHESS, France)
10. Digital History
Contributor: Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK)
Commentator: Steve F. Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
11. Neurohistory
Contributor: Rob Boddice (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; McGill University in Montreal, Canada)
Commentator: Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University, USA)
12. Posthumanist History
Contributor: Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland; Stanford University, USA)
Commentator: Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University, USA)
Conclusion, Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK)
Index
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