Who’s Afraid of Synthesis? Essay on the Writing of an Outcast Historical Genre
As a genre of historical writing, synthesis has received successive vetoes since the end of World War II. Here, the decline of the synthesis is supported on two hypotheses: from the theoretical-institutional point of view, the expansion of social history led to the adoption and dissemination of mono...
- Autores:
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Malerba, Jurandir
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2023
- Institución:
- Universidad EAFIT
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EAFIT
- Idioma:
- por
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/33372
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10784/33372
- Palabra clave:
- Historical synthesis
historical writing
theory of history
history of contemporary historiography
public history
Síntesis histórica
escritura histórica
teoría de la historia
historia de la historiografía contemporánea
historia pública
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- Copyright © 2022 Jurandir Malerba
| Summary: | As a genre of historical writing, synthesis has received successive vetoes since the end of World War II. Here, the decline of the synthesis is supported on two hypotheses: from the theoretical-institutional point of view, the expansion of social history led to the adoption and dissemination of monographic studies; from the 1960s onwards, the emergence of poststructuralism and its successor, historiographical postmodernism. After a topical approach to the theoretical foundations of the synthesis in some unavoidable references, viability of the synthesis both as an essential tool in the history workshop and as a strategic historiographical genre in communicating with broader audiences is sustained under the light of public history. |
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