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
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
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