The New History: Confessions and ConversationsISBN: 978-0-7456-3021-2
Paperback
256 pages
December 2002, Polity
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In this innovative volume, Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke examines
the nature of the so-called ‘new history’. In
conversation with nine leading scholars associated with the
movement, Pallares-Burke investigates the new approaches to the
writing of history. In a series of interviews, Asa Briggs, Peter
Burke, Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg, Jack Goody, Daniel Roche,
Quentin Skinner, Keith Thomas and Natalie Zemon Davis are
questioned about their major works and their relation to other key
historians and theorists.
Urging each historian to justify their methods and to reflect on their intellectual trajectory, Pallares-Burke tries to make explicit the experiences and ideas that are otherwise implicit in the historian’s work. The interviews probe the historians’ personal and intellectual background and offer fresh insight into the possibilities, problems and preoccupations of contemporary historical practice. The result is a lively and illuminating book that will appeal to both students and scholars.