Beyond the Canon: History for the Twenty-first Century

✍ Scribed by Maria Grever, Siep Stuurman (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Old Canons and New Histories....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Who Needs a Canon?....Pages 19-30
Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon....Pages 31-47
From National Canon to Historical Literacy....Pages 48-62
A Narrative that Encompasses Our History: Historical Culture and History Teaching....Pages 63-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Can the Enlightenment Provide a Canon for Modernity?....Pages 79-93
Citizenship, the Canon and the Crisis of the Humanities....Pages 94-109
Truth, Power and Beauty: Rethinking the Nation in German Historical Museums....Pages 110-127
Gender in and beyond the Canon, or how to make Women (In)visible in History....Pages 128-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Museums, Heritage and the Transformation of South African Memory....Pages 145-159
‘Internationalizing’ the Classic United States History Survey....Pages 160-172
French School History Confronts the Multicultural....Pages 173-187
Mission Interrupted: Gender, History and the Colonial Canon....Pages 188-204
Disrupting the Canon: the Case of Slavery....Pages 205-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-221

✦ Subjects

Historiography and Method; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Social History; Cultural History; World History, Global and Transnational History

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