Manifestos for History

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Introduction: On fidelity and diversity......Page 14
1 Space for the bird to fly......Page 24
2 History-writing as critique......Page 32
3 Manifesto for a history of the media......Page 52
4 The closed space of choice: A manifesto on the future of history......Page 63
5 'Humani nil alienum': The quest for 'human nature'......Page 80
6 History and the politics of recognition......Page 90
7 The gift of the past: Towards a critical history......Page 101
8 Performing cross-culturally......Page 111
9 Historical fiction and the future of academic history......Page 121
10 Alternate worlds and invented communities: History and historical consciousness in the age of interactive media......Page 144
11 Being an improper historian......Page 162
12 Resisting apocalypse and rethinking history......Page 173
13 Manifesto for an analytical political history......Page 192
14 Historiographical criticism: A manifesto......Page 210
15 The past of the future: From the foreign to the undiscovered country......Page 218
Afterword: Manifesto time......Page 233
Index......Page 245