The New History: Confessions and ConversationsISBN: 978-0-7456-3020-5
Hardcover
256 pages
December 2002, Polity
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The Independent
"Scholars are self-effacing by vocation, but Maria Lúcia
Pallares-Burke leads some of the world’s most influential
historical thinkers into enthralling revelations. We hear Jack
Goody – the greatest and most under-appreciated living
British intellectual – bemoaning the obscurity of his own
ideas, and Quentin Skinner self-condemned as a “local
historian”. We learn what it was like for Peter Burke to face
temptation in Singapore, Natalie Davis to survive McCarthyism,
Keith Thomas to encounter voodoo. The interviewees engage in
fascinating implied dialogues with each other. Among surprising
recurrent themes – Marxism, Brazil – two lessons ring
through: the need for a comparative approach to history and the
value of what Peter Burke calls “soft cultural
relativism”."
Professor Felipe Fernándes-Armesto, Queen Mary,
University of London
"Professor Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke is a perceptive and
well-prepared interviewer of nine prominent social and cultural
historians for[this book,] which first appeared in her native
Brazil."
Canadian Journal of History, December 2004