The Nature of History Reader
Edited by Keith Jenkins and Alun Munslow
Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK Detailed contents
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
PART ONE Reconstructionism 19 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) 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 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 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