The Nature of Reader

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Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1

PART ONE Reconstructionism 19 1 Return to Essentials (1991) 21 2 Deborah A. Symonds 'Living in the Scottish Record Office' (1999) 24 3 Edward Royle Modern Britain: A , 1750-1997 ([1987: 1998) 27 4 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 The Origins of the War of 1914 (1952-7) 42 7 David Loades The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government and Religion in England, 1553-58 ([1979] 1991) 47 8 John Hassan A History of Water in Modern England and Wales (1998) 50 9 Michael A.R. Graves Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601 ([1987] 1996) 53 x DETAILED CONTENTS

10 Gertrude Himmelfarb The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age (1984) 55

PART TWO Constructionism 61 11 Peter Charles Hoffer and William W. Stueck Reading and Writing American History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft (1994) 63

12 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 A History of Civilizations ([1963] 1993) 72

15 Gwynne Lewis The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (1999) 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 History and International Relations (1999) 89

20 Charles More Understanding the Industrial Revolution (2000) 93

21 Richard F. Bensel Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1991) 96

22 John Tosh vWhat Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Britain' (1994) 102

23. Marion Gibson Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches (1999) 104

24 Paul Thompson The Voice of the Past: Oral History ([1978] 2000) 107

25 Mark S.R. Jenner vThe Great Dog Massacre' (1997) 110

PART THREE Deconstructionism us 26 Greg Dening 'Performing On the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay' (2002) 117 27 Walter Benjamin The Arcades Project (1999) 135

28 Richard Price First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People ([1983] 2002) 142 DETAILED CONTENTS xi

29 Robert A. Rosenstone The Man Who Swam Into History (2002) 155

30 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht In 1926: Living At The Edge of Time (1997) 171

31 Sven Lindqvist A History of Bombing (2000) 182

32 Dipesh Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought

and Historical Difference (2000) 191

33 Hayden White Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (1999) 197

34 Iain Chambers Culture After Humanism (2000) 214

35 Jacques Derrida 'Deconstructions: The Im-possible' (2001) 224

PART FOUR Endisms 241

36 David Roberts Nothing But History (1995) 243

37 Carolyn Steedman Dust (2001) 251

38 Joan Scott 'After History?' (1996) 259

39 Rita Felski 'Fin de Siecle, Fin de sexe: Transsexuality,

Postmodernism and the Death of History' (1996) 270

40 Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth "Beyond 'The Subject'" (2000) 281

41 David Harlan The Degradation of American History (1997) 295

42 Dipesh Chakrabarty "The Death of History? Historical Consciousness

and the Culture of Late Capitalism" (1992) 304

43 Jean Frangois Lyotard The Postmodern Explained to Children (1992) 312

44 Jean Baudrillard 'The End of the Millennium or the Countdown' (1997) 319 45 Kerwin Lee Klein 'On The Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse' (2000) 328

Guide to further reading 333 Bibliography 339

Index 343