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Reckoning with HistoryEssays on Uses of the Past |
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New perspectives on how people have put the past to work.
Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.
Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past
Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.
Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past
Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.
Details
270 Pages, 6 x 9
3 drawings
ISBN 9780228022428
September 2024
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“Reckoning with History will be coveted by the many students and scholars who have been inspired by Professor Woolf's work. This book goes beyond the festschrift tradition by offering a collection of essays that engage with and develop the main theme of Woolf’s métier as historian – to wit, the many ‘uses of the past’ made by people (not just professional historians) in various different contexts.” Brian Cowan, McGill University
K.J. Kesselring is professor of history at Dalhousie University.
Matthew Neufeld is associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
Matthew Neufeld is associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
1 Reckoning with the Past: An Appreciation and an Introduction 3
Matthew Neufeld
2 Historical Guidance for Early Modern English Women and Children 18
Kathryn Brammall
3 A Persian Mirror for English Magistrates: Thomas Preston’s Cambises and the Coming to Terms with the Marian Past 40
Paulina Kewes
4 Reform and Conversion: Contextualizing Richard Stanihurst’s Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) 64
Jane Yeang Chui Wong
5 The Repertories of the Tower Records: William Bowyer’s Calendars of the English State Papers in the 1560s 87
Norman Jones
6 Past Plagues and Their Uses in Early Modern England 113
Paul Slack
7 “Women Worthies” in Eighteenth-Century Historical Culture:Sarah Chapone and George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752) 132
K.J. Kesselring
8 Abiel Holmes and George Chalmers: Plagiarism and Annals in the American Republic of Letters 155
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
9 William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium 180
Ian Hesketh
10 The Jewish Holocaust, Indigenous People, and the Politics of Recognition: A Cautionary Tale 203
Bain Attwood
11 Engaging Right-Wing Populisms: Which Historical Memory for What Kind of Democracy? 228
Stefan Berger
Contributors 249
Index 253
1 Reckoning with the Past: An Appreciation and an Introduction 3
Matthew Neufeld
2 Historical Guidance for Early Modern English Women and Children 18
Kathryn Brammall
3 A Persian Mirror for English Magistrates: Thomas Preston’s Cambises and the Coming to Terms with the Marian Past 40
Paulina Kewes
4 Reform and Conversion: Contextualizing Richard Stanihurst’s Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) 64
Jane Yeang Chui Wong
5 The Repertories of the Tower Records: William Bowyer’s Calendars of the English State Papers in the 1560s 87
Norman Jones
6 Past Plagues and Their Uses in Early Modern England 113
Paul Slack
7 “Women Worthies” in Eighteenth-Century Historical Culture:Sarah Chapone and George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752) 132
K.J. Kesselring
8 Abiel Holmes and George Chalmers: Plagiarism and Annals in the American Republic of Letters 155
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
9 William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium 180
Ian Hesketh
10 The Jewish Holocaust, Indigenous People, and the Politics of Recognition: A Cautionary Tale 203
Bain Attwood
11 Engaging Right-Wing Populisms: Which Historical Memory for What Kind of Democracy? 228
Stefan Berger
Contributors 249
Index 253
