The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments.

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST - Nancy PartnerModernity and History: The Professional DisciplineThe Turn towards ¿Science¿: Historians Delivering Untheorized Truth - Michael BentleyThe Implications of Empiricism for History - Lutz RaphaelThe Case for Historical Imagination: Defending the Human Factor and Narrative - Jan van der DussenThe Annales School: Variations on Realism, Methods and Time - Joseph TendlerIntellectual History: From Ideas to Meanings - Donald R KelleySocial History: A New Kind of History - Brian LewisPostmodernism: The Linguistic Turn and Historical KnowledgeThe Work of Hayden White I: Mimesis, Figuration, and the Writing of History - Robert DoranThe Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative - Kalle Pihlainen Derrida and Deconstruction: Challenges to the Transparency of Language - Robert M SteinThe Return of Rhetoric - Hans KellnerMichel Foucault: The Unconscious of History and Culture - Clare O¿FarrellHistory as Text: Narrative Theory and History - Ann RigneyThe Boundaries of History and Fiction - Ann Curthoys and John DockerPART TWO: APPLICATIONS: THEORY-INTENSIVE AREAS OF HISTORY - Nancy PartnerThe 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 SmithGender II: Masculinity Acquires a History - Karen HarveySexuality and History - Amy RichlinPsychoanalysis and the Making of History - Michael RoperNew National Narratives - Kevin FosterCultural Studies and History - Gilbert B RodmanMemory: Witness, Experience, Collective Meaning - Patrick H HuttonPostcolonial Theory and History - Benjamin ZachariahPART THREE: CODA. POST-POSTMODERNISM: DIRECTIONS AND INTERROGATIONS - Nancy PartnerPost-Positivist Realism: Regrounding Representation - John H ZammitoHistorical Experience beyond the Linguistic Turn - Frank AnkersmitPhotographs: Reading the Image for History - Judith KeilbachDigital Information: ¿Let a hundred flowers bloom...¿ Is Digital a Cultural Revolution? - Valerie Johnson and David ThomasRecovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction - David Gary ShawThe Fundamental Things Apply: Aristotle¿s Narrative Theory and the Classical Origins of Postmodern History - Nancy Partner