Historians on History, 2nd Edition

Historians on History  is the foremost Reader on historical practice, featuring the writings of the major scholars of the modern world.  It provides the essential companion to all history and theory/practice courses from first year upwards.

• Brings together some of the key writings of the major historians from the last half-century.
• A complete study of History – where it is at, and where it has been.
• A well-written and tightly composed book, brought together by a talented and distinguished team of historians.

      Introduction                                                                                                 

Part One:    History for its own Sake                                                          

       Fidelity to the sources                                                                     

       1.    V.H. Galbraith                                                                             

       2.    G.R. Elton                                                                                   

       Empathy and imagination                                                                

       3.    C.V. Wedgwood                                                                         

       4.    Richard Cobb                                                                              

Part Two:    Political Histories                                                                

       History as progress                                                                           

       5.    J.H. Plumb                                                                                    

       6.    E.H. Carr                                                                                      

       The nation                                                                                           

       7.    Herbert Butterfield                                                                         

       8.    Daniel Boorstin                                                                               

       9.    A. Adu Boahen                                                                               

       Marxism                                                                                               

       10.    Christopher Hill                                                                             

       11.    E.J. Hobsbawm                                                                             

       12.    Eugene Genoves                                                                            

Part Three:    The New Radicalism                                                           

       History from below                                                                    

       13.    Raphael Samuel                                                                                  

       14.    Vincent Harding                                                                      

       15.    Alf Lûdtke                                                                          

       Gender                                                                            

       16.    Carroll Smith-Rosenberg                                                   

       17.    Joan Scott                                                                           

       18.    Gisela Bok                                                                                   

       Postcolonialism                                                                   

       19.    Ranajit Guha               &nnbsp;                                                    

       20.    Dipesh Chakrabarty                                                            

       21.    Catherine Hall                                                                    

Part Four:    Learning from Historical Perspective                          

       Persistence and change                                                          

       22.    March Bloch                                                                     

       23.    Peter Laslett                                                                         

       Beyond stereotypes                                                        

       24.    Michael Howard                                                                 

       25.    Howard Zinn                                                   

       Qualified predictions                                                             

       26.    H.R. Trevor-Roper                                                         

       27.    Alan Bullock                                                                

Part Five:    History as Social Science                                           

       New questions, new concepts                                             

       28.    Richard Hofstadter                                                               

       29.    Philip Abrams                                                                        

       The authority of numbers                                                

       30.    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie                                        

       31.    Robert William Fogel                                                             

       Reactions                                                          

       32.    Fernand Braudel                                                          

       33.    Lawrence Stone                                                         

       34.    Theodore Zeldin                                                                        

Part Six:    The Cultural Turn                                                

       The impact of Postmodernism                                              

       35.    Patrick Joyce                                                                    

       36.    Joan Scott                                                                               

       37.    Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob                     

       The new Cultural History                               

       38.    Mark Poster                                                 

       39.    Robert Darnton                                                        

         Memory and culture                                                       

40.       Pierre Nora                                                                   

41.       Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone                     

Part Seven:    Beyond Academia                                             

       42.    H.R. Trevor-Roper                                                             

       43.    Gerda Lerner                                                                    

       Further Reading                                                                           

       Index