TY - SER
AU - Nancy Partner
AU - Sarah Foot
CY - Thousand Oaks, CA
LA - English
N1 - Examines recent debates and developments in historical theory.

Contents:
Foundations: Theoretical Frameworks for Knowledge of the Past / Nancy Partner 

Modernity and History: The Professional Discipline
The turn towards 'science': historians delivering untheorized truth / Michael Bentley 
The implications of empiricism for history / Lutz Raphael 
The case for historical imagination: defending the human factor and narrative / Jan van der Dussen 
The Annales School : variations on realism, methods and time / Joseph Tendler 
Intellectual history: from ideas to meanings / Donald R. Kelley 
Social history : a new kind of history / Brian Lewis 

Postmodernism: The Linguistic Turn and Historical Knowledge
The work of Hayden White I: mimesis, figuration, and the writing of history / Robert Doran 
The work of Hayden White II: defamiliarizing narrative / Kalle Pihlainen 
Derrida and deconstruction: challenges to the transparency of language / Robert M. Stein 
The return of rhetoric / Hans Kellner 
Michel Foucault: the unconscious of history and culture / Clare O'Farrell 
History as text: narrative theory and history / Ann Rigney 
The boundaries of history and fiction / Ann Curthoys and John Docker 

Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas of History / Nancy Partner 
The newest social history: crisis and renewal / Brian Lewis 
Women's history/feminist history / Judith P. Zinsser 
Gender I: from women's history to gender history / Bonnie G. Smith 
Gender II: masculinity acquires a history / Karen Harvey 
Sexuality and history / Amy Richlin 
Psychoanalysis and the making of history / Michael Roper 
New national narratives / Kevin Foster 
Cultural studies and history / Gilbert B. Rodman 
Memory : witness, experience, collective meaning / Patrick H. Hutton 
Postcolonial theory and history / Benjamin Zachariah 

Coda. 
Post-postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations / Nancy Partner 
Post-positivist realism: regrounding representation / John H. Zammito 
Historical experience beyond the linguistic turn / Frank Ankersmit 
Photographs: reading the image for history / Judith Keilbach 
Digital information : 'Let a hundred flowers bloom ... ' : is digital a cultural revolution? / Valerie Johnson and David Thomas 
Recovering the self : agency after deconstruction / David Gary Shaw 
The fundamental things apply: Aristotle's narrative theory and the classical origins of postmodern history / Nancy Partner.
PB - Sage
PP - Thousand Oaks, CA
PY - 2013
SN - 9781412931144
EP - 560 pp.
TI - The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory
ER -