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Author:   Francesco Benigno (Teramo University, Italy) ,  David Fairservice
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781138943742

ISBN 10:   1138943746
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   27 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction: writing history at a time of memory 0.1 The distancing of modern 0.2 The challenge of memory 0.3 Traditional history vs memorial history? 0.4 Conclusion: a plea for critical history Part I Rethinking Early Modern Europe Chapter 1 Violence Rites of violence? Different from us Losing one’s head Conclusions: violence as judgement Chapter 2 Popular culture 2.1 The standard historiographical understanding of popular culture 2.2 A thousand Menocchio 2.3 The hermeneutical turn 2.4 Folklore and reflexive anthropology 2.5 Inventing the people 2.6 Conclusions: rethinking the concept of popular Chapter 3 Public opinion 3.1 Critique as the matrix of the crisis 3.2 An utopia of communication 3.3 A deformed ancien régime 3.4 Possible pluralisms 3.5 Conclusions: counterposed rhetorics Chapter 4 Revolutions 4.1 After the revisionisms 4.2 The mother of all revolutions 4.3 Revolutions before ""the Revolution"" 4.4 Conclusions: revolutions and public memory Part II Rethinking Modernity Chapter 5 Identity 5.1 There was once a thing called class 5.2 Between radical individualism and representations 5.3 The discovery of identity 5.4 New types of subjectivity 5.5 The modernity we have lost 5.6 The liquified world 5.7 Simul stabunt simul cadent: nation, class and identitary divisions 5.8 Conclusions: coming in terms with lost innocence Chapter 6 Power 6.1 The time of Grand Theories 6.2 The anti-positivistic reaction 6.3 Foucault 6.4 Power in social organizations 6.5 Power, institutions, identity 6.6 Conclusions: the communicative dimension of power Chapter 7 Generations 7.1 Wave on wave 7.2 Grounding the concept of generation 7.3 Historians and the concept of generation 7.4 Generational memory and constructing of an event 7.5 Conclusions: the generation call Chapter 8 Terrorism 8.1 Improbable definitions and unbelievable genealogies 8.2 Revolutionary terrorism 8.3 Insurgency and counter-insurgency 8.4 The evil scourge 8.5 Conclusions: terrorism on the stage Index"

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""Francesco Benigno offers a panoramic overview of methodological issues in contemporary historical writing. Like many historiographers in our times, he provides a perspective on the proposition that we have crossed from a modern into a postmodern age.[...]His message seems to be that historiography, when viewed from the perspective of actual historians at work, is a dynamic process that mimics the speed of communication in our times."" -Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont, Journal of Modern History

"""Francesco Benigno offers a panoramic overview of methodological issues in contemporary historical writing. Like many historiographers in our times, he provides a perspective on the proposition that we have crossed from a modern into a postmodern age.[...]His message seems to be that historiography, when viewed from the perspective of actual historians at work, is a dynamic process that mimics the speed of communication in our times."" -Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont, Journal of Modern History"

Author Information

Francesco Benigno is Professor of History at Teramo University, Italy, and the author of several books, including Mirrors of Revolution: Conflict and Political Identity in Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2010).

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