Key Metaphors for History

<p>This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians politicians and journalists to represent time history memory the past the present and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations such as modernity event process revolution crisis progress decline or transition.</p><p>The analysis of these and other pillars on which modern history has been built whether as a philosophy of history as an academic discipline or as a set of events will interest graduates and scholars dealing with the historical and social sciences and the humanities in general.</p><p><i>Key Metaphors for History </i>offers a broad overview of historiography and historiosophy from an unfrequented point of view halfway between conceptual history theory of history and metaphorology. Moreover it constitutes a form of self-reflection of the historian on his or her own positionality when researching and writing history.</p>