Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

5 best books like Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hayden White): Silencing the Past, Course in General Linguistics, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Silencing the Past

Author	Michel-Rolph Trouillot
ISBN	0807043117

If Marx, Foucault, and Howard Zinn wrote a book together, it would probably look something like Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. This isn't a slur, though; as you can tell from my five-star rating, I obviously appreciated the book, its author's cobbled personal reflections plus broader...

Course in General Linguistics

Author	Ferdinand de Saussure
ISBN	0812690230

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been...

That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

Author	Peter Novick
ISBN	0521357454

The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late 19th century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended...

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

Author	Norman Cohn
ISBN	0195004566

ISIS AND THE TALIBAN – JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.


Ecclesiastes 1:9


This book is a brilliant account of the really crazy cults which sprang...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...