A comprehensive introduction to the twelve most influential schools of
thought in the study of history
Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which
evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of
scientific empiricism as it is of poststructualism.
The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the
twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the
study of history in the twentieth century. Ranging from Empiricism to
Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each chapter begins
with an introduction to the particular school, the main protagonists,
the critics, and is followed by a useful section of further readings.
From the classic, such as G. R. Elton's England Under the Tudors and E.
P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, to the recent,
such as Henrietta Whiteman's White Buffalo Woman and Judith Walkowitz's
City of Dreadful Delight, the diverse selections collected here bring
together the leading historians and theorists of the century.
Comprehensive and accessible to undergraduates, The Houses of
History is ideally suited to classroom use.