History : An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (Hardcover, 2 ed)

List of figures List of tables Prologue: history matters Acknowledgements THEORY Part 1 Perspectives Chapter 1: Proof, objectivity and causality History: science or art? The status of historical knowledge Evidence and interpretation Causes in history Chapter 2: Ordering of time Time, history, modernity Newton and the ‘time reckoner’ Periodization The shape of things to come Part 2 Histories and Philosophies Chapter 3: Ideas of History; from the ancients to the Christians Herodotus and gold-digging ants Thucydides and reason: an historian for our times? What did the Romans ever do for history? Christianity and the end of days Chapter 4: From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern European Christendom and the age of Bede Peoples of the book: Jewish and Islamic conceptions of history Renaissance humanism and rediscovery of the classics The battle of books: Camden, Clarendon and English identity Chapter 5: Enlightenment and Romanticism The English Enlightenment? Secular histories Romanticism: Scott and Carlyle Chapter 6: The English Tradition Responses to the Enlightenment: Edmund Burke Constitutionalism and the Whig interpretation of history JH Plumb and the new Whigs Chapter 7: The North American Tradition America and the New Order of the Ages The progressive or new historians The consensus historians The other America Chapter 8: Histories of Revolutions; Revolutionary histories Paine and the radical tradition French and German Experiences Germany, Hegel and the Spirit of History Marx and ‘historical materialism’ Marxism in the twentieth century Chapter 9: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Modernity and the Enlightenment Postmodernism Postcolonialism and the West METHOD Part 3 Varieties Chapter 10: Political History Theories of the state High and low politics: the case of the British Labour Party Beyond state and party: political histories and civil society Chapter 11: Economic History Population and social change Economic historians and the big historical questions The business of business history Chapter 12: Social History The emergence of social history Class and authority The family in history Chapter 13: Cultural History What is cultural history? The national character The promise of cultural history: conflict and carnival Chapter 14: Feminism, Gender and Women’s History Feminism and history The attack on class Gender and identity Chapter 15: Public History What is public about history? Consumption of public history Producing public history Public history as contested knowledge Chapter 16: Visual History Visual histories Ways of seeing: Paintings Ways of seeing: Prints and photographs Chapter 17: Global history The challenges of global history Origins of the global imagination Enter ‘new world history’ Chapter 18: Environmental history The scope of environmental history Historic precedents European colonialism Modern environmentalism Part 4 History and Other Disciplines Chapter 19: Archaeology The lure of archaeology The theoretical turn: Collingwood and Childe Historical archaeology Jerusalem and its layers Chapter 20: Anthropology Pens and pith helmets Functionalism and structuralism Historical myths: Jewish conspiracies and the ‘blood libel’ The ‘dying god’: Captain Cook and ethnohistory Microhistories: worms, night battles and ecstasies Chapter 21: Literature Literature as history The new historicism: Text and context The graphic novel Writing the metropolis Chapter 22: Geography History, space and place Geographies of empire How to lie with maps PRACTICE Chapter 23: Archives in a Digital World What is an archive? ‘When we return as human beings again’: archives and the ashes Speaking for ourselves: state and community archives Archives and the digital turn Chapter 24: Oral History Anthropologists of ourselves Oral historiographies The limits of memory: Arthur Harding and the East End underworld The wider experience Bibliography Index