"Recuerda el futuro": la escritura de la historia canadiense desde 1920: Segunda Parte

• Autores: Marlene Shore
• Localización: Historia y grafía, ISSN 1405-0927, Nº. 12, 1999, págs. 179-216
• Idioma: español
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  • "Remember the Future": Canadian Historical Writing since 1920: Second Part
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• Resumen

  • By the late 1960s, the growth of the historical profession in Canada resulting from the expansion of universities, and changes in the discipline of history brought forward scholars posing questions unfamiliar to Canadian historical writing, including discussions of class and social structure. Together with the political and intelectual tumult of the era, these prompted a turn away from national history toward concern with regional and local themes, and especially working class history. The CHR was initially slow to publish the new approaches, and the criticism that arose prompted a change in the journal's editorial structure and policies, including efforts to publish historiographical articles that would explain various fields of specialization and therefore overcome the discipline's potential fragmentation. There were still serious omissions: reflecting larger problems within the Canadian historical profession, articles in intellectual and cultural history were few; the number of francophone historians publishing in the journal dwindled. In the 1990's, the impact of postmodernism began to be slightly evident while concern about the political disengagement of historians was expressed. The trends and problems affecting the CHR - especially the decline in the national tradition of historical writing - are evident in the historical journals of other former colonial nations where discussion about the consequences of specialization and the declining public role of historians abound.