Historical methodology

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Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie

Section ‘Energy Sources: new collections and heritage’

The Journal of Energy History is a new online academic journal, the first dedicated entirely to energy history. It will debut in 2018 in English and French.

Call for contributions

Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie

Section ‘Energy Sources: new collections and heritage’

The Journal of Energy History is a new online academic journal, the first dedicated entirely to energy history. It will debut in 2018 in English and French.

Call for contributions

Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie

Section ‘Energy Sources: new collections and heritage’

The Journal of Energy History is a new online academic journal, the first dedicated entirely to energy history. It will debut in 2018 in English and French.

Call for contributions

Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie

Section ‘Energy Sources: new collections and heritage’

The Journal of Energy History is a new online academic journal, the first dedicated entirely to energy history. It will debut in 2018 in English and French.

Much has been written on the professionalization of history and the rise of the modern nation-state. Clinging to mythical origins as basis for legitimacy articulates well with the modern state’s practice of archiving, celebrating and supplying “evidence” of ethnic and cultural authenticity. The purpose of this session is to expand the conversation about the state and its archives. Jacques Derrida identified archives as sites of disease or evil, at the intersection of the will to power and an obsession with beginnings (commandment and commencement).

Much has been written on the professionalization of history and the rise of the modern nation-state. Clinging to mythical origins as basis for legitimacy articulates well with the modern state’s practice of archiving, celebrating and supplying “evidence” of ethnic and cultural authenticity. The purpose of this session is to expand the conversation about the state and its archives. Jacques Derrida identified archives as sites of disease or evil, at the intersection of the will to power and an obsession with beginnings (commandment and commencement).

Much has been written on the professionalization of history and the rise of the modern nation-state. Clinging to mythical origins as basis for legitimacy articulates well with the modern state’s practice of archiving, celebrating and supplying “evidence” of ethnic and cultural authenticity. The purpose of this session is to expand the conversation about the state and its archives. Jacques Derrida identified archives as sites of disease or evil, at the intersection of the will to power and an obsession with beginnings (commandment and commencement).