The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory, and the Humanities - Couverture rigide

Raab, Nigel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004290761 ISBN 13 : 9789004290761

Editeur : Brill, 2015

Synopsis

In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapters that focus on knowledge, language, memory, imagining and inventing, and civil society, the analysis reveals how theoretical applications can be the source of interpretive confusion.

By drawing from a global range of historical works, Nigel Raab demonstrates how this problem concerns all historical sub-fields. From science in the seventeenth century to communism in the twentieth century, theories often overdetermine analysis in a way the historian never intended. After the enthusiastic reception of theory for over a generation, The Crisis from Within argues that the time has come to pause and think seriously about how we wish to proceed with theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Raab, Ph.D. (2002), is Associate Professor of Russian History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914, (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011). He has published articles in Russian and German and is currently working on a history of natural disasters in the Soviet Union.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004290761
• ISBN 13: 9789004290761
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
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