Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Theory of History - 1st semester

Code

711051078

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

História

Credits

6

Teacher in charge

José Neves

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

Bibliography

BERGER, Stefan (org.), Writing the Nation – a Global Perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
BURKE, Peter (org.), History and Historians in the Twentieth-Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
CATROGA, Fernando, Memória, História e Historiografia, Coimbra, Editorial Quarteto, 2001.
JENKINS, Keith (org.), The Postmodern History Reader, Londres e Nova Iorque, Routledge, 1997.
KOSELLECK, Reinhart, The Practice of Conceptual History – Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Stanford, Stanford
University Press, 2002.
RUSEN, Jorn (org.), Western Historical Thinking: an Intercultural Debate, Nova York, Berghahn Books, 2002.
SANCHES, Manuela Ribeiro (org.), Deslocalizar a Europa – Antropologia, Literatura, Arte e História na Pós-Colonialidade,
Lisboa, Cotovia, 2005.
TURNER, Bryan (org.), Teoria Social, Lisboa, Difel, 2002.
WHITE, Hayden, Metahistory – The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Londres, John Hopkins, 1973.

Teaching method

Theoretical and practical classes, including the analyses and discussion of data and historical documents, the presentation
and discussion of the research activities that will later be evaluated.

Evaluation method

The evaluation consists of: one written test (45%); one
written essay (45%); the presentation of one historical document (10%).

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