Approaches to History
John Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (2000).
Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History (1997)
J. Appleby, L. Hunt & M. Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994)
Peter Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1991)
Peter Burke, History and Social Theory (1992)
Anna Green and Kathleen Troup (eds.), The houses of history. A critical reader in
twentieth-century history and theory (1999)
Mary Fulbrook, Historical Theory (2002)
Eric Hobsbawm, On History (1997)
Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century (1997)
John Tosh, The Pursuit of History (1999)
Ludmilla Jordana, History in Practice (2000)
Introductions to:
Contemporary History
G. Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History (1964): esp. Ch.1
B. Brivati, J. Buxton & A. Seldon (eds.), The Contemporary History Handbook (1996)
R. P. Dutt, Problems of Contemporary History (1962): esp. Preface & Ch.1
A. Seldon (ed.), Contemporary History: Practice and Method (1988)
Cultural and Intellectual History
P. Burke, What is cultural history? (2008)
G. Eley, A crooked line: from cultural history to the history of society (2005)
L. Hunt (ed.), The new cultural history (1989)
D. La Capra, Rethinking intellectual history: texts, contexts, language (1983)
M. Bevir, The logic of the history of ideas (1999)
History of Colonialism
Antoinette Burton (ed.) After the imperial turn: thinking with and through the nation
(2003)
Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial theory: a critical introduction (1998)
Catherine Hall (ed.) Cultures of Empire: colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a reader (2000)
Bart Moore-Gilbert, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (1997).
Robert Young, Postcolonialism: an historical introduction (2001).
Public History in Theory and Practice
S. Benson et al, Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public (1986)
J. De Groot, Consuming History (2008)
M. Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public
History (1990)
Jennifer Evans, `What is Public History?’ and Debra DeRuyver, `The History of
Public History’ both at www.publichistory.org