History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice

List of figuresList of tablesPrologue: history matters Acknowledgements THEORYPart 1 PerspectivesChapter 1: Proof, objectivity and causalityHistory: science or art?The status of historical knowledgeEvidence and interpretationCauses in history Chapter 2: Ordering of time Time, history, modernityNewton and the `time reckoner'PeriodizationThe shape of things to comePart 2 Histories and PhilosophiesChapter 3: Ideas of History
 from the ancients to the Christians Herodotus and gold-digging antsThucydides and reason: an historian for our times?What did the Romans ever do for history?Christianity and the end of daysChapter 4: From the Middle Ages to the Early ModernEuropean Christendom and the age of BedePeoples of the book: Jewish and Islamic conceptions of historyRenaissance humanism and rediscovery of the classicsThe battle of books: Camden, Clarendon and English identityChapter 5: Enlightenment and RomanticismThe English Enlightenment? Secular historiesRomanticism: Scott and CarlyleChapter 6: The English Tradition Responses to the Enlightenment: Edmund BurkeConstitutionalism and the Whig interpretation of historyJH Plumb and the new WhigsChapter 7: The North American TraditionAmerica and the New Order of the AgesThe progressive or new historiansThe consensus historiansThe other AmericaChapter 8: Histories of Revolutions
 Revolutionary historiesPaine and the radical traditionFrench and German ExperiencesGermany, Hegel and the Spirit of HistoryMarx and `historical materialism'Marxism in the twentieth centuryChapter 9: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Modernity and the EnlightenmentPostmodernismPostcolonialism and the WestMETHODPart 3 VarietiesChapter 10: Political HistoryTheories of the stateHigh and low politics: the case of the British Labour PartyBeyond state and party: political histories and civil societyChapter 11: Economic History Population and social changeEconomic historians and the big historical questionsThe business of business historyChapter 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 characterThe promise of cultural history: conflict and carnivalChapter 14: Feminism, Gender and Women's History Feminism and historyThe attack on classGender and identityChapter 15: Public History What is public about history?Consumption of public historyProducing public historyPublic history as contested knowledgeChapter 16: Visual HistoryVisual histories Ways of seeing: Paintings Ways of seeing: Prints and photographsChapter 17: Global historyThe challenges of global historyOrigins of the global imaginationEnter `new world history'Chapter 18: Environmental historyThe scope of environmental historyHistoric precedentsEuropean colonialismModern environmentalismPart 4 History and Other DisciplinesChapter 19: Archaeology The lure of archaeologyThe theoretical turn: Collingwood and Childe Historical archaeologyJerusalem and its layersChapter 20: Anthropology Pens and pith helmetsFunctionalism and structuralismHistorical myths: Jewish conspiracies and the `blood libel'The `dying god': Captain Cook and ethnohistoryMicrohistories: worms, night battles and ecstasiesChapter 21: Literature Literature as history The new historicism: Text and context The graphic novel Writing the metropolis Chapter 22: GeographyHistory, space and placeGeographies of empireHow to lie with mapsPRACTICEChapter 23: Archives in a Digital WorldWhat is an archive? `When we return as human beings again': archives and the ashes Speaking for ourselves: state and community archivesArchives and the digital turn Chapter 24: Oral HistoryAnthropologists of ourselvesOral historiographiesThe limits of memory: Arthur Harding and the East End underworldThe wider experienceBibliographyIndex