Unsettling History: Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

In recent decades, scholars within the field of history have disputed the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. The articles of Unsettling History extend that challenge to two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. Despite their air of impartiality, archival resources-the authors argue-are subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation. Narrating, too, is more complicated than it might at first seem, especially as the range of genres available to historians has significantly expanded in recent years.

Incisive and strongly argued the contributions to Unsettling History advance the work of postcolonial studies. Thus, the collection will be indispensable for all who are concerned with historical study and presentation.