The Nature of History
Reader
Edited by
Keith Jenkins and
Alun Munslow
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Detailed contents
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1
PART ONE
Reconstructionism
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1
Geoffrey Elton Return to Essentials (1991)
21
2
Deborah A. Symonds 'Living in the Scottish Record Office' (1999)
24
3
Edward Royle Modern Britain: A Social History, 1750-1997
([1987: 1998)
4
27
George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi America: A Narrative
History ([1984] 1999)
36
5
David Hackett Fischer Paul Revere's Ride (1995)
39
6
Luigi Albertini
42
7
David Loades The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government
and Religion in England, 1553-58 ([1979] 1991)
John Hassan A History of Water in Modern England and Wales
(1998)
8
9
The Origins of the War of 1914 (1952-7)
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50
Michael A.R. Graves Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601
([1987] 1996)
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Gertrude Himmelfarb The Idea of Poverty: England in the
Early Industrial Age (1984)
PART TWO
Constructionism
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Peter Charles Hoffer and William W. Stueck Reading and Writing
American History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft (1994)
63
12
Eric Hobsbawm On History (1997)
66
13
John Tosh
The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions
in the Study of Modern History ([1984] 2000)
69
14
Fernand Braudel A History of Civilizations ([1963] 1993)
72
15
Gwynne Lewis
76
16
David R. Roediger The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making
of the American Working Class (1991)
79
17
John M. MacKenzie Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts (1995)
82
18
Jan P. Nederveen Pieterse Empire and Emancipation: Power and
Liberation on a World Scale (1990)
86
19
Thomas W. Smith
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Charles More
(2000)
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23.
The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (1999)
History and International
Relations (1999)
Understanding the Industrial Revolution
93
Richard F. Bensel Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State
Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1991)
John Tosh What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections
on Nineteenth-Century Britain' (1994)
Marion Gibson
25
Paul Thompson
104
The Voice of the Past: Oral History ([1978] 2000)
Mark S.R. Jenner
v
The Great Dog Massacre' (1997)
PART THREE
Deconstructionism
26
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Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English
Witches (1999)
24
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v
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110
us
Greg Dening 'Performing On the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay'
(2002)
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27
Walter Benjamin
The Arcades Project (1999)
28
Richard Price First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African
American People ([1983] 2002)
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DETAILED CONTENTS
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Robert A. Rosenstone
The Man Who Swam Into History (2002)
30
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht In 1926: Living At The Edge of Time
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(1997)
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31
Sven Lindqvist A History of Bombing (2000)
182
32
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought
and Historical Difference (2000)
191
33
Hayden White
197
34
Iain Chambers Culture After Humanism (2000)
214
35
Jacques Derrida 'Deconstructions: The Im-possible' (2001)
224
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (1999)
PART FOUR
Endisms
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36
David Roberts
Nothing But History (1995)
37
Carolyn Steedman
38
Joan Scott 'After History?' (1996)
39
Rita Felski 'Fin de Siecle, Fin de sexe: Transsexuality,
Dust (2001)
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Postmodernism and the Death of History' (1996)
270
40
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth "Beyond 'The Subject'" (2000)
281
41
David Harlan
295
42
Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Degradation of American History (1997)
"The Death of History? Historical Consciousness
and the Culture of Late Capitalism" (1992)
304
43
Jean Frangois Lyotard
312
44
Jean Baudrillard 'The End of the Millennium or the Countdown'
(1997)
Kerwin Lee Klein 'On The Emergence of Memory in Historical
Discourse' (2000)
45
The Postmodern Explained to Children (1992)
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328
Guide to further reading
Bibliography
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339
Index
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