The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory

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.