Monday 4 April 2011

Social history update encountering postmodernism

Discusses the significance of post-modernists' challenging of conventions in historical thinking and writing. Criticisms on historical relativism and theoretical relativism; Post-modernists' passion for a certain amount of terminological obscurantism as part of a new drive toward political purity; Post-modernism's relation to the growing interest in cultural factors and cultural evidence in social history

Stearns, PN 1990, Social history update encountering postmodernism, Journal of Social History, 24, 2, p. 449, SocINDEX with Full Text, EBSCOhost, viewed 4 April 2011

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