Theory of History
Objectives
The main objectives are:
a) getting to know the history of the most relevant historiographical trend;
b) acquiring knowledge that will allow the student to develop future research on historiography and the theories of history.
In order to come to terms with these, we will:
a) inform students of the state of the art in the field of theory of history;
b) focus on the major changes that occurred in the last three decades;
c) analyse the fundamental bibliography on the issue, exploring the conceptual framework specific to the theory of history.
General characterization
Code
01101030
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
José Manuel Viegas Neves
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- BERGER, Stefan (org.), Writing the Nation – a Global Perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- BURKE, Peter (org.), History and Historians in the Twentieth-Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
- CATROGA, Fernando, Memória, História e Historiografia, Coimbra, Editorial Quarteto, 2001.
- JENKINS, Keith (org.), The Postmodern History Reader, Londres e Nova Iorque, Routledge, 1997.
- KOSELLECK, Reinhart, The Practice of Conceptual History – Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2002.
- RUSEN, Jorn (org.), Western Historical Thinking: an Intercultural Debate, Nova York, Berghahn Books, 2002.
- SANCHES, Manuela Ribeiro (org.), Deslocalizar a Europa – Antropologia, Literatura, Arte e História na Pós-Colonialidade, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2005.
- TURNER, Bryan (org.), Teoria Social, Lisboa, Difel, 2002.
- WHITE, Hayden, Metahistory – The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Londres, John Hopkins, 1973.
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical classes, including the analyses and discussion of data and historical documents, the presentation and discussion of the research activities that will later be evaluated.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Method - one written essay(45%), one written test ((45%), the presentation of one historical document(10%)
Subject matter
1. Introduction to the major áreas and questions concerning the theory of history
1.1. the hisotoriographical legacy of the 19th century
1.2. the historiographical renewals from the 1930´s to the 1970’s: annals, marxisms and other trends
2. Historigoraphical dynamics since the 1970’s
2.1. The problem of thruth and the history of science
2.2. The implications of post-modernism and the “linguistic turn”
2.3. the historical writing
3. Today’s debates
3.1. National histories and global history
3.2. Economic histroy and the problematization of the idea of development
3.3. The new history, mentalities and cultural history
3.4. Political history and the problematization of the idea of power
3.5. Micro-history, oral history and social history