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University of Virginia Press History and Histories within the Human Sciences by Ralph Cohen and Michael S Roth
Recent trends in the humanities and social sciences have forced on academia what many might call a crisis of history. Conventional assumptions about coherence and meaning in history are being challenged by questions concerning the relevance of history and attempts to refigure its content and mode of representation. The publication of History and ... appears at a critical moment in our efforts to understand the importance of history as it relates to a wide range of scholarly disciplines.History and ... brings together some of its most thoughtful scholars to better understand not only how our disciplines are connected to professional historiography but how our attempts to understand cultures are connected to our pasts.show more