The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory

Contents: The empiricists -- Marxist historians -- Freud and psychohistory -- The Annales -- Historical sociology -- Quantitative history -- Anthropology and ethnohistorians -- The question of narrative -- Oral history -- Gender and history -- Postcolonial perspectives -- The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism. Readings: England under the Tudors. Henry VII: securing the dynasty / G.R. Elton Exploitation / E.P. Thompson The legend of Hitler's childhood / Erik H. Erikson The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II / Fernand Braudel France, Russia, China: a structural analysis of social revolutions / Theda Skocpol The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 / Richard Wall Yucatec Maya women and the Spanish conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Inga Clendinnen The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson Gender divisions and class formation in the Birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman Science and séance: transgressions of gender and genre / Judith R. Walkowitz