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Author: Ulinka Rublack (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European history at Cambridge University and a fellow of St John's College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 21.90cm
Weight: 0.674kg
ISBN: 9780199291212
ISBN 10: 0199291217
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 17 March 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The stellar cast of authors... [introduce] the reader to some of the most exciting developments in the field of history over the past three decades... the book achieves a great deal. Stefan Berger, Times Literary Supplement Ambitious...rich and challenging...makes some significant contributions Alix Green, Reviews in History How has the writing of history changed over the past half century? What are the topics and issues that interest historians today? These questions, and many more, are addressed in the Concise Companion, a pioneering and exceptionally stimulating volume of essays which indicate some of the ways in which the challenges of globalization are forcing historians to rethink their approaches to the past. Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford Ulinka Rublack has created a true companion volume for readers of recent and current historical writing. In an astonishing feat of editorship, she brings together some of the best living historians and some insuperable essays on the state and drift of the subject. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History, Notre Dame University
How has the writing of history changed over the past half century? What are the topics and issues that interest historians today? These questions, and many more, are addressed in the Concise Companion, a pioneering and exceptionally stimulating volume of essays which indicate some of the ways in which the challenges of globalization are forcing historians to rethink their approaches to the past. Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford Ulinka Rublack has created a true companion volume for readers of recent and current historical writing. In an astonishing feat of editorship, she brings together some of the best living historians and some insuperable essays on the state and drift of the subject. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History, Notre Dame University
Author Information
Ulinka Rublack teaches early modern European history at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of St John's College. One of the most original historians of her generation, she is widely known for her books Reformation Europe and Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (the latter published by Oxford University Press) and, more recently, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe, which is also published by Oxford University Press.
