The Forgotten Dreams of History-from-Below.
In his 2003 essay, "On Agency," Walter Johnson faulted the way scholars' focus on agency presumed a "unidirectional trade between past and present," treating "history writing as a mode of redress." It marginalized "human-ness lived outside the conventions" of a "liberal notion of selfhood." Restorin...
| Published in: | Journal of Social History Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 420 - 431 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2024
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