This important handbook brings together in one volume discussions of the role of modernity, empiricism, realism, post-modernity and deconstruction in the historians craft.

Table of Contents

• List of contributors
• Foundations: Theoretical Frameworks for Knowledge of the Past - Nancy Partner
• Introduction
• Modernity and History: The Professional Discipline
• The Turn towards ‘Science’: Historians Delivering Untheorized Truth - Michael Bentley
• The Implications of Empiricism for History - Lutz Raphael
• The Case for Historical Imagination: Defending the Human Factor and Narrative - Jan van der Dussen
• The Annales School: Variations on Realism, Methods and Time - Joseph Tendler
• Intellectual History: From Ideas to Meanings - Donald R. Kelley
• Social History: A New Kind of History - Brian Lewis
• Postmodernism: The Linguistic Turn and Historical Knowledge
• The Work of Hayden White I: Mimesis, Figuration, and the Writing of History - Robert Doran
• The Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative - Kalle Pihlainen
• Derrida and Deconstruction: Challenges to the Transparency of Language - Robert M. Stein
• The Return of Rhetoric - Hans Kellner
• Michel Foucault: The Unconscious of History and Culture - Clare O'Farrell
• History as Text: Narrative Theory and History - Ann Rigney
• The Boundaries of History and Fiction - Ann Curthoys and John Docker
• Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas of History - Nancy Partner
• Introduction
• The Newest Social History: Crisis and Renewal - Brian Lewis
• Women's History/Feminist History - Judith P. Zinsser
• Gender I: From Women's History to Gender History - Bonnie G. Smith
• Gender II: Masculinity Acquires a History - Karen Harvey
• Sexuality and History - Amy Richlin
• Psychoanalysis and the Making of History - Michael Roper
• Cultural Studies and History - Gilbert B. Rodman
• Memory: Witness, Experience, Collective Meaning - Patrick H. Hutton
• Postcolonial Theory and History - Benjamin Zachariah
• Coda. Post-postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations - Nancy Partner
• Introduction
• Post-positivist Realism: Regrounding Representation - John H. Zammito
• Historical Experience beyond the Linguistic Turn - Frank Ankersmit
• Photographs: Reading the Image for History - Judith Keilbach
• Digital Information: ‘Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom …’ is Digital a Cultural Revolution? - Valerie Johnson and David Thomas
• Recovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction - David Gary Shaw
• The Fundamental Things Apply: Aristotle's Narrative Theory and the Classical Origins of Postmodern History - Nancy Partner