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'Jordanova is brilliant in exposition...makes a fine case for the inescapability of the past and the absolute essentiality of studying it.'
(English Historical Review - first edition review )'This brilliant essay abounds with penetrating yet down-to-earth insights about the practice of academic history. One of the last half-century's most insightful, level-headed, and humane reflections on the practice of history and its cultural significance...(to be) welcomed by professional historians...also accessible to general readers and undergraduates.'
(History Journal (US) - first edition review )'Achieves what I had thought increasingly impossible in this congested field: it says something fresh, stimulating, and thought provoking. It is, to my mind, a very significant contribution to current debates about the nature of history in offering an account which is simultaneously rooted in practice and engaged with theoretical debates.'
(Patrick Finney, University of Wales, Lampeter - first edition review )'Jordanova succeeds admirably in her aim to place the practice of history in a wider disciplinary context. Not only is she alive to the constructed nature of subject boundaries and their porosity, but also to the relatively recent date of their institutionalisation.'
(Reviews in History - first edition review )Product Description
The study of history has changed dramatically in recent decades. The swiftness and scale of the shift is indisputable, but its precise nature as well as its implications remain hotly contested. History in Practice explores the discipline's breadth, its complexities and the tasks it takes on. This study by one of the liveliest and most acute practitioners in the field demystifies what historians do. It looks at history as an academic discipline but also engages with the use of historical ideas in the wider world.
Historical work has public consequences and draws considerable energy from contemporary preoccupations. For this new edition of her respected and widely used book, Ludmilla Jordanova has revised the text and added a new chapter that takes into account recent world events. She discusses the role of the internet, globalisation, world history and the current enthusiasm for military history.
This book is essential reading for all students needing an understanding of history as a discipline.
Historical work has public consequences and draws considerable energy from contemporary preoccupations. For this new edition of her respected and widely used book, Ludmilla Jordanova has revised the text and added a new chapter that takes into account recent world events. She discusses the role of the internet, globalisation, world history and the current enthusiasm for military history.
This book is essential reading for all students needing an understanding of history as a discipline.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Do not be put off by the review entitled 'Not the best buy ever!'. It is not written as a general introduction to history or one from which selective quotes may be taken. It is a thought provoking book which stands in its own right. Probably not totally suitable for a first year undergraduate - I read it while doing my MA - but nevertheless worth reading. I found it a good stimulating read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I personally would recommend Jordanova's book to any history student, although perhaps not someone with very little experience of the subject, as it is better for its insights, and ability to reflect on historians' varied work and tasks in an incredibly valuable way. It is very accessible, but it is not heavy on detail, and therefore its utility probably comes in a secondary way, i.e. the ideas may not always be explicitly applicable to phenomena explored in, for example, undergraduate essays.
Jordanova's book is refreshing in that she executes it with a level of self-awareness all too rare in the historical field. A definite recommended read, but remember that this book is exploratory rather than explanatory.
Jordanova's book is refreshing in that she executes it with a level of self-awareness all too rare in the historical field. A definite recommended read, but remember that this book is exploratory rather than explanatory.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Contrary to the previous review this book is a good book for undergraduate history students. Jordanova herself states in the prelimanaries of the book that she is not writing a normal book. She geared the book towards students and therefore will not have all of the accepted historical writing rules. The book is good for learning how history relates to other fields as well as what it is like to study history for a living. Do not buy this book if you want to source from it because it is not that kind of book. It is the kind of book a professor would use in a second year historiography course to get students to be interested in history without falling asleep.
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History in Practice
A brilliant, wide ranging but succinct and accessible introduction to history as a discipline and to the principal problems that the practice of history throws up. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rabbit
Sightseeing of modern history
Goes a long way in answering the question What is history? Complemets Carr in being more practically oriented. Read more
Published on 2 May 2009 by Sipilä Jussi
Not the best buy ever!
Jordanova has produced a book that is both infuriating and inaccessable. As a first year History student I was advised to but this as an introduction to the study of history. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2001
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