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245 0 4 _aThe contemporary history handbook /
_cedited by Brian Brivati, Julia Buxton and Anthony Seldon.
260 _aManchester ;
_bManchester University Press ;
_aNew York :
_bSt. Martin's Press,
_c1996.
300 _axxiv, 488 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _gPt. 1.
_tDebates --
_gCh. 1.
_tThe new threat to history /
_rEric Hobsbawm --
_gCh. 2.
_tWorld security after Cold War /
_rJohn Erickson --
_gCh. 3.
_tPostmodernism and postmodernity: a user's guide /
_rJoe Bailey --
_gCh. 4.
_tThe "end of history" debate revisited /
_rRichard Cockett --
_gCh. 5.
_tThe post-war consensus in Britain: thesis, antithesis, synthesis? /
_rHarriet Jones --
_gCh. 6.
_tWhose history? National narratives in multiracial societies /
_rShamit Saggar --
_gCh. 7.
_tDebates in contemporary political economy /
_rAndrew Graham --
_gCh. 8.
_t"Sexing the archive": gender in contemporary history /
_rLucy Noakes --
_gCh. 9.
_tCitizenship and the European Union /
_rElizabeth Meehan --
_gCh. 10.
_tThe hedgedog and the fox: the writing of contemporary British political history /
_rBrian Brivati --
_gPt. 2.
_tInternational perspectives --
_gCh. 11.
_tThe European scramble from Africa /
_rMichael Twaddle --
_gCh. 12.
_tContinuities in states policy: a case study of Ethiopia /
_rKaren Wells --
_gCh. 13.
_tDemocratization and economic change in Latin America /
_rGeorge Philip --
_gCh. 14.
_tJapan and the Pacific /
_rIan Neary --
_gCh. 15.
_tChina: a state in search of a civilization /
_rChris Hughes --
_gCh. 16.
_tThe turbulent decade: Soviet and Russian politics 1985-95 /
_rPhilip Boobbyer --
_gCh. 17.
_tForward into history: the liberalization of Eastern /
_rJulia Buxton --
_gCh. 18.
_tContemporary conservation and contemporary history in the United States /
_rGerard Alexander --
_gCh. 19.
_tIndia /
_rTom Nossiter --
_gCh. 20.
_tBritain and "Europe": the shape of the historiographical debate /
_rJohn W. Young --
_gPt. 3.
_tArchival sources and debates --
_gCh. 21.
_tPrivate papers /
_rAngela Raspin --
_gCh. 22.
_tParliamentary sources /
_rDermot Englefield --
_gCh. 23.
_tNational archives in the United States: the case of intelligence history /
_rBradley F. Smith --
_gCh. 24.
_tNational British archives: public records /
_rNicholas Cox --
_gCh. 25.
_tNational archives in the United Kingdom: a case study of the Waldegrave initiative on Public Record Office releases /
_rAnthony Gorst and Brian Brivati --
_gCh. 26.
_tThe case for preserving our contemporary communications heritage /
_rPhilip M. Taylor --
_gPt. 4.
_tPrinted sources --
_gCh. 27.
_tUsing contemporary written sources: three case studies /
_rBrian Brivati --
_gCh. 28.
_tThe press /
_rChandrika Kaul --
_gCh. 29.
_tBooks and journal /
_rMichael David Kandiah --
_gCh. 30.
_tSurvey and opinion poll /
_rTom Nossiter --
_gPt. 5.
_tOral and audio sources --
_gCh. 31.
_tOral history /
_rMichael Roper --
_gCh. 32.
_tElite interviewers /
_rAnthony Seldon --
_gCh. 33.
_tRadio /
_rSian Nicholas --
_gPt. 5.
_tVisual sources --
_gCh. 34.
_tPhotography /
_rBrian Harrison --
_gCh. 35.
_tFilm as an historical source /
_rJeffrey Richards.
_gCh. 36.
_tTelevision and contemporary history /
_rMargaret Scammell --
_gCh. 37.
_tBritish newsreels /
_rHoward Smith --
_gPt. 6.
_tElectronic sources --
_gCh. 38.
_tOpportunities in electronic information /
_rSeamus Ross --
_gCh. 39.
_tElectronic record keeping in the UK government and the NHS: opportunity, challenge or threat? /
_rEdward Higg --
_gCh. 40.
_tMultimedia, hypertexts and the contemporary historian /
_rLorna M. Hughes --
_gCh. 41.
_tCD-ROM and the historian: information technology and the writing of history /
_rBrian Brivati --
_tAppendix 1. Useful addresses --
_tAppendix 2. The Institute of Contemporary British History.
520 _aThis guide should be useful to those studying and researching modern history. International and up to date, it covers sources and controversies in the subject area and includes a section of useful addresses. The volume is divided into three main sections which together comprise a reference work for contemporary historians. The first section comprises of a series of essays that cover issues as diverse as postmodernism, world security, the end of history, gender and multi-racialism. It opens with a defense of the role of the historian in the contemporary world by Eric Hobsbawm. This is followed by a section on global perspectives, analyzing the current debates among commentators and historians on Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Latin America, Japan, China, Africa, Russia, the Middle-east and the Indian sub-continent. The final section, sources, covers the problems and possibilities of conventional sources used for understanding the contemporary period and examines the importance of uniquely contemporary sources such as television, computers, multimedia and living witnesses. The handbook concludes with a series of diverse listings along with the names and addresses of sources of further information.
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