Debating New Approaches to History

This books self-styled framework for debating new approaches to history is to be applauded. Debating New Approaches to History is competent, skilled, and comprehensive. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * Anyone looking for a solid and highly original introduction to new developments in the history of historical writing need not look further than this absolutely riveting book. Some of the leading contemporary historians are writing lucidly and engagingly about cutting-edge developments in historiography. * Stefan Berger, Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany * A collection of stimulating and informative essays that serves extremely well the two ambitions announced in the title of the book: to introduce and debate methods and perspectives that have critically influenced the discipline of history in the last few decades, from globalization and postcolonial criticism to post-humanism and the Anthropocene. The debates here will enliven the classroom and inspire the practitioner. * Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Chicago, USA * This is an excellent cutting edge work that provides insights into some of the most exciting new approaches to historiography. It is essential both for graduate students looking to get a handle on new methodologies, and to established scholars who are seeking new paths for their work. * Eli Rubin, Professor of History, Western Michigan University, USA * A challenging, contentious, thought-provoking book. * Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USA * A sophisticated, nuanced approach to emerging fields in the study of history. Marek Tamms instructive introduction emphasizes the importance of new global perspectives informing current historiography, providing a framework for a volume which both indicates some of the problematical aspects of the new work and calls for theoretical reflection on its meaning, scope and potential contributions. This is a work that anyone interested in history and historical writing will want to read. * Gabrielle Spiegel, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA *

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: Jrgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz, Germany) Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Universit Laval, Canada) 2. Environmental History Contributor: Grgory Qunet (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Commentator: Sverker Srlin (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 (Universit du Qubec Montral, 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: Bjrnar Olsen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) 9. History of Visual Culture Contributor: Gil Bartholeyns (Universit 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 Universitt 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