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Abelove, Henry, "The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History." Radical History Review , 62 (Spring 1995), 44-57.: "Henry Abelove observes the reception of works in lesbian/gay history by his students who identify as queer. Recording the reactions of queer students who do not recognize themselves in these texts or 'own' them in the ways that 'gay and lesbian' students did in the recent past, Abelove speculates about the new priorities and possibilities of queer history as imagined by these students." from the editor's introduction
Abelson, Elaine, David Abraham, and Marjorie Murphy, "Interview with Joan Scott." Radical History Review , 45 (August 1989), 40-59.
Allen, Barry, "The Soul of Knowledge." History and Theory , 86:1 (February 1997), 63-82.: Review of Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.
Allen, Barry, "What It All Means." Science July 1999: Review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?
Appleby, Joyce, "One Good Turn Deserves Another: Moving Beyond the Linguistic; A Response to David Harlan." American Historical Review , 94:5 (December 1989), 1326-1332
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.: "A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters with post-modernism and multiculturalism." David A. Hollinger, New York Times Book Review.
Arens, Katherine, "Discourse Analysis as Critical Historiography: A semanalyse of Mystic Speech." Rethinking History , 2:1 (Spring 1998), 23-50.: "Abstract: This paper traces a model for critical linguistics used as a historiography in the work of Michel de Certeau, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray, an approach that Kristeva terms a semanalyse, an analysis that critiques the social space and subjectivity produced by the language shared by a community. This essay presents this critical historiography as used in three essays on early modern mysticism, De Certeau's Mystic Fable shows how the space of linguistic (semiotic) representation is closely linked to social subjectivity in an era that was actively rewriting its fables while it was rewriting its religious practices. His work is paralleled by a pair of essays that Kristeva and Irigaray contributed to a museum catalogue on mystical art edited by Paul Vandenbroeck, Le Jardin clos de l'ame."
Armour, Leslie, Review of The Social Construction of What?, by Ian Hacking. Library Journal (15 August 1999).
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.: "In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and nonfiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Examining the works of such novelists as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Brontes, she reveals the ways in which these authors rewrote the domestic practices and sexual relations of the past to produce the historical conditions making modern institutional power seem not only natural but also humane, and therefore desirable as well as necessary." from the back cover
Ausmus, Harry J., Review of Nothing but History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics, David D. Roberts American Historical Review , 102:3 (June 1997), 776-777.
Bann, Stephen, "Mourning, Identity, and the Uses of History." History and Theory , 37:1 (February 1998), 94-101.: Review of The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History, by Michael S. Roth.
Barkin, Kenneth, "Bismarck in a Postmodern World." German Studies Review , 18:2 (May 1995), 241-252.
Bartelson, Jens A Genealogy of Sovereignty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Cambridge Studies in International Relations, no. 39.
Berlanstein, Lenard, R., Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Comparative Studies in Society and History , 33 (April 1991), 426-440.
Berni, Christine, "Taking an Axe to History: The Historical Lizzie Borden and the Postmodern Historiography of Angela Carter." Clio , 27:1 (Fall 1997), 29-
Bevir, Mark, "Objectivity in History" History and Theory , 33:3 (1995), 329-344.
Blake, Casey, Review of The Degredation of American History, by David Harlan. Journal of American History 86:1 (June 1999)
Bonnell, Victoria E., and Lynn Hunt, Eds. Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 34.: Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 25-27, 1996, in California.

"Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research.

"The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalisms by one of its most influential proponents.

"Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect." from the University of California Press catalog

Beyond the Cultural Turn examines the impact of the turn toward culture--variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism--on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors' introduction and ten essays by distinguished scholars offer fresh insights into the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and by new empirical research on social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect." from the back cover of the paperback edition

Contents: Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, "Introduction."Part 1. Culture as Concept and Practice. William H. Sewell, Jr., "The Concept(s) of Culture"; Richard Biernacki, "Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History." Part 2. Knowledge in the Social Sciences. Margaret C. Jacob, "Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn Toward the Comparative and the Global"; Margaret R. Somers, "The Privitization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture." Part 3. Narrative, Discourse, and Problems of Representation. Karen Halttunen, "Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity"; Steven Feierman, "Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories"; Sonya O. Rose, "Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations." Part 4. Reconstructing the Categories of Body and Self. Caroline Bynum, "Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective"; Jerrold Seigel, "Problematizing the Self." Hayden White, "Afterword."

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Boxer, Marilyn J., Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Journal of Social History , 22 (Summer 1989), 788-790.
Bravmann, Scott. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference. Cambridge University Press.: "This is the first book to look at how lesbians and gays use history to define themselves as social, cultural, and political subjects. Bravmann shows how historical representations are dynamic conversations between past and present, creating individual and collective meanings. Exploring the theoretical and political ramifications of this project, he considers how historiography, ancient Greece, the Stonewall riots, and post-modern historical texts inform and reflect race, gender, class, and political differences in queer subjectivity." from the Cambridge University Press catalog
Brennan, Teresa History After Lacan London and New York, Routledge, 1993. Opening Out: Feminism for Today.: "Lacan was not an ahistorical poststructuralist. Starting from this controversial premise, Teresa Brennan recovers a neglected theory of history in Lacan's work. According to Lacan we live in a psychotic era which began in the seventeenth century and climaxes in the present.

"After drawing our Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a general theory of modernity. Contrary to postmodern assumptions, she argues, we need general historical explanation, an understanding of historical dynamics which goes beyond Marxism and its 'poststructuralism antithesis'. This is necessary if we are to bridge the applicability gap between contemporary critical theory and questons of sexual difference, ethnicity, economy and enviironment." from the back cover of the paperback edition

Contents: Part I. 1. The Problem. 2. The Ego's Era. Part II. 3. The Foundational Fantasy. 4. From the Reserve Army of Labour to the Standing Reserve of Nature. 5. Conclusion: Time and Exploitation. Appendix: The Labour Theory of Value and the Subject-Object Distinction.
Bridenthal, Renate, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Science and Society , 54 (Summer 1990), 226-228.
Brown, Richard Harvey. Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.: "Richard Harvey Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to elaborate the metaphor of society as text. In developing a new logic of the social sciences he argues for linking knowledge of society with public moral action by restoring judgment to its former privilege status in intellectual and public life.

"From the perspective of what Brown calls symbolic realism, the world is not observed so much as read. The world is a text. Conventional methods in the social sciences envision processes or events in terms of functions or causes. By contrast, if society is conceived of as a text, one can still explain the determined, prescribed dimensions of social reality but also better understand how human experience is authored by men and women.

"If society is a text, by what method should it be read? Brown advances the critical theory of rhetoric as such a method because, on the one hand, it shows that experience and knowledge are produced through persuasive use of language, and, on the other, provides canons of reasoned judgment in political discourse. In demonstrating that social reality is linguistically structured Brown goes beyond epistemological and methodological questions. He decomposes 'texts' in order to reveal how historical forms of consciousness are constructed and, by implication, how such forms misrepresent practical social relations of domination.

"Brown discusses the problems of political communication across class boundaries, the ideological uses of scientific language, and the social grammars through which personal identity and political economy are mediated. He shows that reason itself is rhetorical by analyzing legal, economic, sociological, and historical forms of rationality. Brown goes on to construe society as a narrative text, and narrative fiction as a social text, in order to discover the rhetorical nature of social experience and knowledge. In a final essay, he advances irony as an emancipating mode of discourse for our fragmented contemporary society.

""We all inherit and create 'worlds.' The world of the theorist requires greater concern for formal properties of cogency and fit, whereas the world of the citizen focuses more on audience reception and reader response. Yet both of these roles involve reality construction through linguistic action. A rhetorical understanding of knowledge and politics -- that is, an understanding that uses such concepts as metaphor, narrative, point of view, and irony -- implies textual authorship and moral-political agency. In this way, Brown argues, a rhetorical analysis of social science texts may help us move to a more morally responsible use of theoretical, practical, and aesthetic discourse." from the dust jacket
Bunzl, Martin. Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Philosophical Issues in Science.: "In Real History, Martin Bunzl charts a new direction for the philosophy of history. He proposes a synthesis between debates about objectivity among historians and recent philosophical arguments about realism. In his clear and direct style, Bunzl argues for an approach to history based on what historians actually do in contrast to what they say they are doing. Drawing on a broad literature including the works of Foucault, Geertz, Novick, Danto and Scott, the result is a new and exciting model for philosophy of history that casts objectivity and realism in a new light.

"Martin Bunzl merges two parallel debates in history and philosophy. In his wide-ranging argument, he draws on relevant discussions ranging from: post-structuralism; to the philosophy of science; to the hermeneutic turn in anthropology; to debates about the history of women." from the back cover
Burnham, Patricia M., and Lucretia Hoover Giese, "'Constructions' and Postmodern Cultural Studies." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28:4 (Spring 1998), 633-
Callinicos, Alex. Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History Cambridge: Polity Press, and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Post-Contemporary Interventions.: "Theories and Narratives explores the relationship between social theory and historical writing. Its aim is to establish the contribution that theory can make to understanding the past.

"Pursuing this objective, Alex Callinicos critically confronts a number of leading attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of history, including Francis Fukuyama's rehabilitation of Hegel's philosophy of history and the postmodernist efforts of Hayden White and others to deny the existence of a past independent of our representations of it. In these cases philosophical arguments are pursued in tandem with discussions of historical interpretations of, respectively, Stalinism and the Holocaust. Leading theories of history -- Marx's and Weber's -- are then critically compared in the context of the work of recent writers such as Michael Mann, W. G. Runciman and Robert Brenner.

"Finally, the politics of historical theory is explored in a discussion of Marxism's claims to be a universal theory of human progress. Swimming against the tide of contemporary fashion, Theories and Narratives seeks to rebut the claim made by many postmodernists that Marxism is inherently Eurocentric in both its conceptual structures and political practice. Marx's project of human emancipation, it concludes, still defines our political horizons." from the back cover
Caplan, Jane, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott. Nation , 248 (9-16 January 1989), 62-65.
Caplan, Jane, "Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and Deconstruction: Notes for Historians." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 260-278.
Carr, David R., Review of A Genealogy of Sovereignty, by Jens Bartelson American Historical Review , 102:2 (April 1997), 422-423.
Carrier, David, Review of Prophets of Extremity, by Allan Megill. British Journal of Aesthetics , 26 (Summer 1986), 288-289.
Carroll, David, "On Tropology: The Forms of History." diacritics , (Fall 1976), 58-64.: Response to Frederic Jameson's review of Hayden White, Metahistory.
Chapman, Herrick, Review of The Nights of Labor, by Jacques Ranciere. Journal of Modern History , 65 (September 1993), 627-630.
Childers, Joseph, Review of History and Criticism, by Dominick LaCapra. Critical Texts , 3:3 (Spring/Summer 1986), 22-25.
Childers, Thomas, "Political Sociology and the 'Linguistic Turn'." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 381-393.
Cmeil, Kenneth, Review of The Degradation of American History, by David Harlan. Intellectual History Newsletter 20 (1998).
Cohen, Paul A., Review of History and Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding, by Robert Eric Frykenberg. American Historical Review , 103:2 (April 1998), 481-482.
Cohen, Sande, "Desire for History: Historiography, Scholarship, and the Vicarious." Storia della storiografia 30 (1996), 57-: On Carlo Ginzburg.
Cohen, Sande, "Science Studies and Language Suppression -- A Critique of Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28:2 (June 1997), 339-
Cohen, Sande Passive Nihilism: Cultural Historiography and the Rhetorics of Scholarship. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.: "Examining multiple academic discourses, Passive Nihilism argues that contemporary models of history, culture, and language are reactive and that their mix of epistemology, rhetoric, and politics is too explosive for the interpretations associate with 'normal criticism.' Sande Cohen argues that 'cultural historiography' is a discourse that makes 'orders' and 'cultural historiography' is a discourse that makes 'orders' and cultural timings' out of language, showing the inseparability of rhetoric, epistemology, and politics in the discourses of the 'human sciences.' Reading texts as distinct as professional history-writing and Derrida's Spectres of Marx, Carlo Ginzburg's metahistorical projections, Bruno Latour's anti-deconstructive model of science studies, art-curatorial models of history, and neo-psychoanalysis' obsessive turn to negation, Cohen argues that the concept of 'passive nihilism' sustains such discourse, giving the human sciences a reactive and idealist gloss. Modern scholarly writing is critiqued for its embrace of the logic of the least negative, its affirmation of nihilism. In this highly charged political/epistemic/rhetorical cultural mix, Cohen draws upon the notions of de Man and Deleuze as the most engaged and critical theorists in offering alternatives to the contemporary 'new histories' of high scholarly writing." from the dust jacket

Contents: "Introduction: Passive Nihilism as Historical Culture"; "Is There Postconventional Historiography?"; "Neohistoricism, Science Studies, and Violence toward Deconstruction"; "Neopsychoanalysis and Cultural Nihilism"; "Historiography, Scholarship, and Mastery"; "Three Existential Simulacra of Language"; "Conclusion: High Scholarship and the Politics of Writing."

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Collins, Jacqueline, Review of Re-thinking History, by Keith Jenkins. History Teacher , 27 (August 1994), 504-506.
Cornell, Saul, "Splitting the Difference: Textualism, Contextualism, and Post-modern History." American Studies , 36 (Spring 1995), 57-80.
Crawford, T. Hugh. Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, Science and Culture series, vol. 1.: "Of all the modernist poets, William Carlos Williams is unique in that his training as a physician and his lifetime of medical practice made him especially conversant in the language of medical science, at a time when medical education was being reformed along more scientific lines and the physician's everyday experience was being transformed by technological innovations.

"Using Williams poetry as a focal point, T. Hugh Crawford examines the relations between the rise of modernism and the history of medical science, medical education in America, and the cultural authority of scientific discourse. The main argument of Modernism Medicine, and William Carlos Williams is that clarity and cleanliness function as organizing concepts in William's writing, in medical texts, and in the discourse of modernism in general. By examining Williams's poems, fiction, and essays, Crawford shows how the poet's ideas were imbued with the perspectives of early twentieth-century science and how he was able to gain authority to speak as a poet by appealing to powerful technoscientific discursive practices.

"As science and technology came to occupy different positions of power in the middle twentieth century than they had earlier, so to did Williams's writings shift. Williams came increasingly to question the assumptions of modernist medicine and science, to the point where he participated in (and in some ways anticipated) today's critique of Enlightenment science. In other words, he made the leap from modernism to postmodernism, a change seen most clearly in his epic poem Paterson.

"Crawford's thought-provoking study reveals the conflicts inherent in Williams's ideas and poetic practice, finding parallels between those conflicts and developing problems in American medical education as well as the changing role of scientific authority in American culture." from the back cover
Crosby, Christina. The Ends of History: Victorians and 'The Woman Question.' New York and London: Routledge, 1991.: "Why were the Victorians so passionate about 'History'? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession -- the 'woman question'? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with 'history' and with the nature of 'women.'

"Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts -- Daniel Deronda and Hegel's Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macauley's History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins' The Frozen Deep, and Mayhew's survey of 'labour and the poor'; Villette, Patrick Fairbairn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters -- she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian 'man' as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of 'women' as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosby's analysis raises a crucial question for today's feminists -- how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth-century 'history'?" from the back cover
Crosby, Christina, Review of Teresa Brennan, History after Lacan. History and Theory , (May 1996)
Daniel Stephen H., "Paramodern Strategies of Philosopical Historiography." Epoche 1 (1993), 42-61.
Daniel Stephen H., "Postmodernity, Poststructuralism, and the Historiography of Modern Philosophy." International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (1995), 255-67.
Danto, Arthur, Review of Prophets of Extremity, Allan Megill. New York Times Book Review , 90 (15 September 1985), 26.
Davis, Lennard J. Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel. 1983; reprint, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.: "A ground-breaking study of the origins of the novel, Factual Fictions shows how English fiction was consolidated out of journalism, history, and literature. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and other theoreticians, Davis demonstrates how early modern culture created the categories of fact and fiction as tactics to circumvent religious, political, and legal sanctions against writing and printing. Thus the inherently criminal and transgressive nature of the novel is reflected in its embodiment of working-class culture, women's writing, and coloniality to forge a narrative of the 'other.'" from the back cover
De Landa, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Swerve (Zone), 1997.: "Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical developments during the last one thousand years. A Thousand Years of Non Linear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while engaging --in an unprecedented manner--the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages.

"De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies. In every case--economics, biology, and linguistics--he discloses the self-directed processes of matter and energy interfacing with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West, free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source for its urban, institutional and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West's history rather, are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself." from the back cover
Dintenfass, Michael, "Truth's Other: Ethics, the History of the Holocaust, and Historiographical Theory after the Linguistic Turn." History and Theory (February 2000)
Doak, Kevin M., What Is a Nation and Who Belongs? National Narratives and the Ethnic Imagination in Twentieth-Century Japan." American Historical Review , 102:2 (April 1997), 282-309.: Abstract: "Kevin M. Doak challenges standard accounts of Japanese nationalism that emphasize the rise of the modern state and the institution of the emperor. He does so by shifting the focus to the role that ethnic nationalism has played in historical narratives that are critical of the modern Japanese state, Doak uncovers a broad discourse on ethnic nationalism in twentieth-century Japan and, along with it, a disillusionment with the modern state that was shared both by those on the political sympathies. His analysis of this discourse leads Doak to call for more awareness of how national identity in modern Japan was often a struggle between those who supported the constitutional state and those who rejected its westernized appearance and instead turned toward an ethnicized vision of the Japanese people. This internally contested sense of the Japanese nation enabled historians of differing political ideologies to imagine the Japanese people as victims of 'internal colonization,' a people oppressed by their own state. Doak's compelling reconstruction of this widespread disenchantment with the modern state in Japan and the powerful allure of ethnic nationalism raises important questions for other historians about the meaning and functions of historical narratives, ethnic identity, nationalism, the state, and liberal values in Japan and other modern societies."
Domanska, Ewa Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1998: "Frustrated with the usual methods of scholarly inquiry, Ewa Domanska hit upon the idea of interviewing theorists and philosophers of history to get at the heart of contemporary understandings of 'history.' The result is Encounters, an exciting collection of thes dialogues. So old fashioned as to seem revolutionary, the interview format allows for a concise presentation of the main ideas of each writer, providing easy access to theories that have shaped modern historiography.

"No one book could encompass the vast territory of contemporary historiography, but this text gives us a sense of what underlies some of the most interesting and challenging work in the field. Although Domanska's interlocutors hold widely divergent views, they agree about which issues are important. Most strikingly, all share the belief that aesthetics, objective reality, and meaning are the most crucial concerns in our understanding of history today. The interviews also address such pressing issues as the relation of history to its modes of presentation, the relation of particular works of history to the notion of history in general, and the personal and civic functions of history. Ewa Domanska's Encounters offers a unique look into the hearts and minds of today's most stimulating historical theorists." from the back cover of the paperback

Contents: Introduction: Allan Megill. Interviews: Hayden White, Hans Kellner, Franklin R. Ankersmit, Georg G. Iggers, Jerzy Topolski, Jorn Rusen, Arthur C. Danto, Lional Gossman, Peter Burke, Stephen Bann, Ewa Domanska (self-interview). Postscript: Lynn Hunt.

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Domanska, Ewa, "Universal History and Postmodernism." Storia della Storiografia 35 (1999)
Donzelot, Jacques. The Policing of Families. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.: "As the social is a hybrid domain, particularly in regard to relations between the public and the private spheres, Donzelot's method consists in isolating pure little lines of mutation which, acting successively or simultaneously, go to form a contour or surface, a characteristic feature of the new domain. The social is located at the intersection of all these little lines. But the milieu on which these lines act, investing and transforming it, still needs to be defined. This milieu is the family -- not that the family is itself incapable of being a motive force of evolution, but when this is the case, of necessity it is by virtue of a coupling with other vectors, just as the other vectors enter into relations of coupling or intersection in order to act on the family. So Donzelot has not written another book on the crisis of the family: the crisis is simply the negative effect of the emergence of these little lines; or rather, the rise of the social and the crisis of the family are the twofold political effect of these same elementary causes. Whence the title, The Policing of Families, which expresses above all this whole correlation, escaping the double danger of a sociological analysis that is too global and a moral analysis that is too summary." from the forward by Gilles Deleuze
Donzelot, Jacques, "The Poverty of Political Culture." Ideology and Consciousness , 5 (Spring 1979), 73-86.: See also: "Introduction to Donzelot," Ideology and Consciousness 5 (Spring 1979), 71-72.
Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.: "Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic reading of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, their accounts are often repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete.

"The backlash against such accounts resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. He demonstrated both the necessity of incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past, and how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the nation." from the back cover
Duara, Prasenjit, "Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty: China, 1900-1945." American Historical Review , 102:4 (October 1997), 1030-1051.: "Prasenjit Duara seizes the opportunity provided by the growing interest in transnationalism to explore the problem historically. He explains that transnationalism tends to be seen as a late twentieth-century development associated with advanced capitalism, flexible production, and postmodernism. However, he maintains, if, as many claim, nationalism emerged in the era of capitalism, then it surely has always had to deal with the boundary-crossing and globalizing impetus of capitalism. Following this insight, Duara explores how nationalist regimes and spokesmen dealt with the transnational demands, flows, and ideals generated not only by capitalism but also by historical forces such as univeralizing religions and population movements not easily confined to the new, territorially sovereign nation-states. He does so by focusing on three topics in East Asia during the first half of the twentieth century: the convergence of Chinese and Japanese ideals of pan-Asianism, the Chinese republican regime's effort to incorporate the non-Chinese peoples of the vast peripheries into the territorial nation-state, and finally that regime's efforts to cultivate the loyalty of oversees Chinese to the nation-state. Duara also has a methodological goal. He seeks to displace the nation-state as a 'natural' or taken-for-granted framework for historical study by revealing how the nation-state sought to confine history and build sovereignty within its claimed territory. Durara's essay is thus a compelling argument about the ways in which the complex and multidimensional relationships between nationalism and transnationalism should be studied." Editor's note, AHR,102:4 (October 1997), xvi.
Duara, Prasenjit, "The Regime of Authenticity: Timelessness, Gender, and National History in Modern China." History and Theory , 37:3 (October 1998), 287-308.: "Abstract: While there is much writing on the nation as the subject of linear history, considerably less attention has been paid to the dimension of the nation as the always identifiable, unchanging subject of history. This unchanging subject in necessitated by the ascendancy of the conception of linear time in capitalism in which change is viewed not only as accelerating, but can no longer be framed by an ultimate source of meaning such as God. Ostensibly, linear history is the falling of events into the 'river tf time,' but national history also posits a continuous subject to gather these changes. Such a subject is recognized only by the spiritual qualities of authenticity, purity, and sacrality. The nation-state and nationalists stake their claim to sovereign authority, in part, as custodians of this authenticity.
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"A range of figures, human and non-human, come to symbolize a regime of authenticity manipulable to some extent by nationalist and state-builders. This essay focuses on the instance of women in early twentieth-century China. Nationalists and cultural essentialists tended to depict women as embodying the eternal Chinese civilizational virtues of self-sacrifice and loyalty and to elevate them as national exemplars. The essays also examines cases of how women themselves may have perceived this role as exemplars and concludes that while there was considerable subversion in their enunciation of this role (to their advantage), there was sufficient reference to the prescriptive code of authenticity in their self-formation to sustain the regime of authenticity. The essay ends with some thoughts about the changing relationship between authenticity and intensifying globalization in the contemporary world."
Duara, Prasenjit, Review of Cultural History and Postmodernity, by Mark Poster, and The Postmodern History Reader, Keith Jenkins, Ed. Journal of American History 86:2 (September 1999)
Dumm, Thomas L. Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Dutton, Michael R. Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to 'the People'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.: "This book traces the transition in the regimes of regulation and punishment through late imperial to modern China, an area long neglected in Chinese studies. Policing and Punishment in China is particularly significant for its theoretical framework; it is not a simple narrative history of policing, but rather draws on Michel Foucault's theoretical work on governmentality, punishment, and control, using his genealogical method to construct a 'history of the present.' While most Chinese Marxist accounts of history have assumed the sublimation of the past as a precondition for the present, Dr. Dutton illustrates that 'feudal relics' do play a part in the social regulation of contemporary China." from the Cambridge University Press online catalog
Easthope, Antony., "Romancing the Stone: History-Writing and Rhetoric." Social History , 18:2 (May 1993)
Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Engelstein, Laura, "Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia." American Historial Review , 98:2 (April 1993), 338-353.: "... a summary of Michel Foucault's ideas on the transition from juridical monarchies to the modern 'disciplinary' state, in which control is not exercised through law but through regulation, often with the support of science, even though law appears to be the ruling mechanism. She then introduces Russia as a test case for Foucault's provocative set of analytical categories, asking what insights emerge if his approach is applied to a culture that is related to Western Europe's but also differs from it in significant ways. In the West, Engelstein finds that scientific disciplines acted within the rule of law, a difference from societies farther east that Foucault did not sufficiently appreciate. In Russia, liberalism and the rule of law did not become established, and three stages of control -- the law of monarchical absolutists, police state repression, and scientific disciplines -- came together with a force such that science was deployed in furtherance of administrative prosecutions of acts not defined as crimes. Engelstein's analysis leads her to question the sometimes overt, sometimes unspoken, sometimes ambiguous political assumptions behind Foucault's project of conceptual and ideological iconoclasm." editor's note
Engelstein, Laura, "Reply." American Historical Review , 98:2 (April 1993), 376-381.
Escoffier, Jeffrey, Regina Kunsel, and Molly McGarry, "The Queer Issue: New Visions of America's Lesbian and Gay Past." Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995), 1-6.
Evans, Eric, Review of On "What is History?", Keith Jenkins. History Today , 47 (June 1997), 57.
Evans, Richard J. H., "Social History in the Postmodern Age." Storia della Storiagrafia , 18 (1990), 36-42.: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Farrell, Thomas B., Review of Prophets of Extremity, Allan Megill. Quarterly Journal of Speech , 72 (May 1986), 204-209.
Fay, Brian, "Nothing But History?" History and Theory , 37:1 (February 1998), 83-93.: Review of Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics, by David Roberts.
Fay, Brian, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann, Eds. History and Theory: Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.: "The last twenty-five years have witnessed a real revolution in our understanding of history. This is mainly the result of the 'linguistic turn' which emphasized the rhetoric of history and the topics of narrative, the poetics of historical representation, the political dimensions of history, the inclusion of dispossessed groups as subjects of history, as well as insights gleaned from postmodernism and feminism. This 'turn' itself inspired spirited criticisms as well as attempts to appropriate its insights into a new account of history. This book brings together some of the most important essays in the theory of history which have produced this revolution and the responses to it." from the Blackwell catalog

Contents: Brian Fay, "Introduction: The Linguistic Turn and Beyond in Contemporary Theory of History". Part I: Narrativity. 1. Hayden White, "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact. 2. Noel Carroll, ""Interpretation, History, and Narrative." Part II: Writing and Reading History. 3. Jack Hexter, "The Rhetoric of History." 4. Nancy F. Partner, "Making Up Lost Time: Writing on the Writing of History." 5. Dominick LaCapra, "History, Language, and Reading: Waiting for Crillon." Part III: Realism, Constructivism and Beyond. 6. Louis Mink, "History and Fiction as Modes of Comprehension." 7. David Carr, "Narrative and the Real World: An Argument for Continuity." 8. Andrew P. Norman, "Telling It Like It Was: Historical Narratives on Their Own Terms." Part IV: Postmodernism and the Theory of History. 9. Frank Ankersmit, "Historiography and Postmodernism." 10. Perez Zagorin, "Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations." 11. Frank Ankersmit, "Reply to Professor Zagorin." Part V: Representation and Trauma. 12. Hans Kellner, "'Never Again' is Now." 13. Berel Lang, "Is it Possible to Misrepresent the Holocaust?" Part VI: Gender, Sexuality, Sex. 14. David Halperin, "Is there a History of Sexuality?" 15. Nancy Partner, "No Sex, No Gender." Part VIII: Objectivity. 16. Thomas Haskell, "Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Rhetoric vs. Practice in Peter Novick's That Noble Dream." 17. R. Gorman, "Objectivity and Truth in History." 18. Chris Lorenz, "Historical Knowledge and Historical Reality: A Plea for Internal Realism. 19. Raymond Martin, "Progress in Historical Studies."
Finch, Lynette. The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 1993.: "Sexuality and the working class, two discursive constructs, share the same moment of birth during the second half of the nineteenth century. The Classing Gaze focuses on Australian social reports and reveals how sections of society were conceptually constructed as two distinct working classes.

"But what of the other working class: Marx's 'lumpenproletariet' and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables? How did twentieth century social theorists agree that only one working class existed?

"The Classing Gaze shows that the notion of sexuality holds the key to the appearance of both groups and the 'disappearance' of one and furthermore that it was the sexuality of women that occupied central stage in the classing process. It argues that underlying our modern social organisation is the silent organising discourse of sexuality." from the back cover

"This book adds new perspectives to current historical scholarship, using Australia as a case study to illuminate broad international concerns. Using the insights of Michel Foucault, it directs historical work away from simplistic empiricist readings of documents concerning class and sexuality, and towards an understanding of the constructed character of categories of thought. The result is a fascinating discussion of middle-class and official discourses on the 'working class' and especially the intersections of class and sexuality: her examples include incest, childhood innocence, seduction, abortion, pregnancy and mothering. Lyn Finch's work enhances our historical understanding of how both class and sexuality were understood and thought about. Feminist post-structuralist history is making its mark" Ann Curthoys
Finlay-Pelinski, Marike, "Semiotics or History: From Content Analysis to Contextualized Discursive Praxis." Semiotica , 40:3-4 (1982), 229-266.: See also Peter Haidu, "Semiotics and History."
Finzsch, Norbert, and Jutte, Robert, Eds. Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals and Prisons in Western Europe and North American, 1500-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.: "A study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe which grew out discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with backgrounds in history, sociology and criminology utilize various methodological approaches and reflect the various viewpoints in the theoretical debate over Foucault's work." from the Cambridge on-line catalog

Includes: "Elias, Foucault, Oestreich: On a Historical Theory of Confinement"; "Four Centuries of Prison History"; "The Transformation of the American Hospital"; "The Construction of the Hospital Patient in Early Modern France"; "Before the Clinic was 'Born'"; "Methodological Perspectives in Hospital History"; "Syphilis and Confinement: Hospitals in Early Modern Germany"; "Madhouses, Children's Wards, and Clinics: The Development of Insane Asylums in Germany"; "Pietist Universal Reform and Care of the Sick and the Poor"; Michel Foucault's Impact on German Historiography of Criminal Justice, Social Discipline, and Medicalization"; "The History of Ideas and Its Significance for the Prison System"; "The Prerogatives of Confinement in Germany, 1933-1945"; "'Comparing Apples and Oranges?': The American and German Juvenile Court, 1882-1923"; "The Medicalization of Criminal Law Reform in Imperial Germany"; Prison Reform in France and Other European Countries in the Nineteenth Century"; "Surveillance and Redemption: The Casa di Correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome"; "'Policing the Bachelor Subculture': The Demographics of Summary Misdemeanants, Allegheny County Jail, 1892-1923"; "Beyond Confinement?: Notes on the History and Possible Future of Solitary Confinement in Germany."
Fontana, Biancamaria, Review of Only Paradoxes to Offer, Joan Wallach Scott. Times Literary Supplement , 4900 (28 February 1997), 31.
Fraser, Nancy, "On the Political and the Symbolic: Against the Metaphysics of Textuality." boundary 2 , 14:1-2 (Fall 1985/Winter 1986), 195-209.: Also published in Enclitic 9:1-2/Issue 17-18, 100-114. Focuses upon Dominick LaCapra's Rethinking Intellectual History.
Freedman, Paul, and Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies." American Historical Review , 103:3 (June 1998), 677-704.: "Paul Freedman and Gabrielle M. Spiegel Look at changes in American views of the Middle Ages, especially during the twentieth century. They argue that until recently the prevailing opinion among United States medievalists was that the founding of modern ideas and institutions could be located in the Middle Ages. Freedman and Spiegel credit Charles Homer Haskins with developing the professional study of the modern state and its constitutional and institutional structures the primary subjects continued this intellectual project by portraying the Middle Ages as progressive, particularly in economics and science, and as an era that nurtured the Western idea of individuality. However, Freedman and Spiegel contend that in recent years historians have begun to depict the Middle Ages in quite different and more disturbing and grotesque terms. A destabilized portrayal of the medieval period has emerged as a result of wider changes in the outlook on the past brought about by both the direct and indirect influence of postmodernism on historiography. Historians and other medievalists are now more inclined either to regard the Middle Ages as radically disconnected from the recent or, seeing modernity itself in more disturbing terms, to consider the medieval centuries as the originating negative characteristics of European history such as colonialism and intolerance. Freedman and Spiegel's wide-ranging twentieth-century United States medieval historians, it also illuminates the impact of some of the common and most significant developments in the scholarship of historians studying very different times and places." editor's note, AHR, 103:3 (June 1998), xiv-xv.
Freiwald, Linn, "The Interrogation of Silence." Maryland Historian , 24:1 (1993), 43-50.: "In the context of poststructuralist theory, the author agonizes about the degree to which her research on children and the courts can be valid. Since children are silent, researchers can only speak from within the power structure and may not be able to judge whether juvenile courts are effective voices for children." G. O. Gagnon, America: History and Life, Vol. 32 (1995), 1049.
Gearhart, Suzanne, "History as Criticism: The Dialogue of History and Literature." diacritics , 17:3 (Fall 1983), 56-65.: Review of Dominick LaCapra's History and Criticism and Rethinking Intellectual History.
Gerstle, Gary, Review of The Nights of Labor, by Jacques Ranciere. Oral History Review , 20 (Spring/Fall 1992), 123-126.
Geyer, Michael, "Historical Fictions of Autonomy and the Europeanization of National History." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 316-342.
Geyer, Michael, and Konrad H. Jarausch, "The Future of the German Past Transatlantic Reflections for the 1990s." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 229-259.
Geyer, Michael, and Konrad H. Jarausch, "Great Men and Postmodern Ruptures: Overcoming the 'Belatedness' of German Historiography." German Studies Review , 18:2 (May 1995), 253-273.
Gilley, Sheridan, "History Without Morality, History Without Truth." History Today , 46 (May 1996), 11-13.
Goldstein, Jan, "Foucault Among the Sociologists: The 'Discipline' and the History of the Professions." History and Theory , 23:2 (1984), 170-192.
Goldstein, Jan, "Framing Discipline with Law: Problems and Promises of the Liberal State." American Historical Review , 98:2 (April 1993), 364-275.: "... while praising Engelstein for having identified the relationship between law and discipline as the conceptual heart of Foucault's political theory, finds that Engelstein's reading of Foucault exaggerates the French philosopher's anarchism and overlooks the liberal sympathies that exist in tension with his suspicion of liberalism. Goldstein also criticizes Engelstein's stark contrast between Russia and the Western democracies and notes that the regulation of prostitution in nineteenth-century France provides ample evidence of frequent breaches of the rule of law by the administration's disciplinary police. Goldstein closes by sketching out a project in comparative history that might result from the innovative way in which Engelstein has posed questions about the relationship between law and discipline." editor's note
Gordon, Daniel, Review of The Killing of History, by Keith Windschuttle. History and Theory (October 1999)
Gordon, Linda, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. American Historical Review , 1156-1157.
Gordon, Linda, "Response to Scott." Signs , 15:4 (Summer 1990), 852-853.: Response to Joan W. Scott's review of Gordon's Heroes of Their Own Lives.
Gordon, Linda, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Signs , 15:4 (Summer 1990), 853-858.
Gorman, J. L., "Reality and Irony in History." Storia della Storiografia , 24 (1993)
Gran, Peter Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Green, Anna, and Kathleen Troup The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory New York: New York University Press, 1999.: "The Houses of History is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical perspectives employed by twentieth-century historians. This innovative critical reader incorporates a wide range of approaches to the writing of history, giving clear accounts of twelve schools of thought ranging from empiricism to poststructuralism.

"Each chapter begins with a succinct description of the ideas integral to a particular theory. the authors then explore the insights and controversies arising from the application of this particular model. The principal contributors to the development of the school are identified, as are the major critics. the chapter concludes with a representative example from a historian writing within this framework. A short list of references gives a guide to further reading in each area." from the back cover of the paperback edition

Contents: 1. The Empiricists. 2. Marxist Historians. 3. Freud and Psychohistory. 4. The Annales. 5. Historical Sociology. 6. Quantitative History. 7. Anthropology and Ethnohistorians. 8. The Question of Narrative. 9. Oral History. 10. Gender and History. 11. Postcolonial Perspectives. 12. The Challenge of Poststructuralism/Postmodernism.
Hacking, Ian. Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.: "Including chapters on Hobbes, Berkeley, Chomsky, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Feyerabend and Davidson, among others, this survey attempts to discover the importance of language in philosophy through numerous case studies." from the Cambridge University Press on-line catalog
Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.: "Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centers round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz and Jacques Bernoulli.

"What brought about the change in ideas? The author invokes in his explanation a wider intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics, and theology in the period. He argues that the transformations which made it possible for probability concepts to emerge have tended to constrain all subsequent development of probability theory and to determine the space within which philosophical debate on the subject is still conducted." from the back cover of the paperback edition
Hacking, Ian, "Language, Truth, and Reason." In Rationality and Relativism. M. Hollis and S. Lukes, Eds. Oxford: Blackwell, and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. pp. 48-66.
Hacking, Ian, "Wittgenstein the Psychologist." New York Review of Books , (1 April 1982), 42-44.
Hacking, Ian, "The Accumulation of Styles of Scientific Reasoning." In Kant oder Hegel. D. Heinrich, Ed. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983. pp. 453-465.
Hacking, Ian, "Biopower and the Avalanche of Numbers." Humanities and Society , 5 (1983), 279-295.
Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.: An introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism.
Hacking, Ian, "Five Parables." In Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy. Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Ideas in Context series. pp. 103-124.
Hacking, Ian, "Styles of Scientific Reasoning." In Post-Analytic Philosophy. John Rajchman and Cornel West, Eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. pp.145-165.
Hacking, Ian, "The Archaeology of Foucault." In Foucault: A Critical Reader. D. C. Hoy, Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. pp. 27-40.
Hacking, Ian, "Self-Improvement." In Foucault: A Critical Reader. D. C. Hoy, Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. pp. 235-240.
Hacking, Ian, "Making Up People." In Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality and the Self in Western Thought Thomas. C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellberry, Eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. pp. 222-236.
Hacking, Ian, "The Participant Irrealist at Large in the Laboratory." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 39 (1988), 277-294.
Hacking, Ian, "Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design." Isis , 79 (September 1988), 427-451.
Hacking, Ian, "On the Stability of the Laboratory Sciences." Journal of Philosophy , 85 (October 1988), 507-514.
Hacking, Ian, "Extragalactic Reality: The Case of Gravitational Lensing." Philosophy of Science , 56 (1989), 555-581.
Hacking, Ian. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Ideas in Context, 17.: "In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. In the same period the idea of human nature was displaced by a model of normal people with laws of dispersion. These two parallel transformations fed into each other, so that chance made the world seem less capricious: it was legitimated because it brought order out of chaos. Professor Hacking argues that these developments have led to a new style of scientific reasoning gaining its hold on us. The greater the level of indeterminism in our conception of the world and of people, the more we expect control and intervention in our lives, and the less we expect freedom.

"Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations between philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics, and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the 'probabilisation' of the western world." from the back cover of the paperback edition
Hacking, Ian, Two Kinds of 'New Historicism' for Philosophers." New Literary History , 21:2 (Winter 1990), 343-364.: See also David A. Hollinger, "Reflections on the Jamesian Arch."
Hacking, Ian, "A Reply to David Hollinger." New Literary History , 21:2 (Winter 1990), 373-376.: See David A. Hollinger, "Reflections on the Jamesian Arch."
Hacking, Ian, "Double Consciousness in Britain, 1815-1875." Dissociation , 4 (1991), 134-146.
Hacking, Ian, "The Making and Molding of Child Abuse." Critical Inquiry , 17 (Winter 1991), 253-288.
Hacking, Ian, "On Boyd." Philosophical Studies February 1991.
Hacking, Ian, "Tradition of Natural Kinds." Philosophical Studies February 1991.
Hacking, Ian, "The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences." In Pickering, Ed. 1991.
Hacking, Ian, "Two Souls in One Body." Critical Inquiry , 17 (Summer 1991), 838-867.
Hacking, Ian, "Statistical Language, Statistical Truth, and Statistical Reason: The Self-Authentification of a Style of Scientific Reasoning." In The Social Dimensions of Science. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1992. pp. 130-157.
Hacking, Ian, "World-Making by Kind-Making: Child Abuse for Example." In How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman among the Social Sciences. Mary Douglas and David Hull, Eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. pp. 180-238.
Hacking, Ian, "The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences." In Science as Practice and Culture. Andrew Pickering, Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. pp. 29-64.
Hacking, Ian, "'Style' for Historians and Philosophers." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science , 23 (March 1992), 1-20.
Hacking, Ian, "How, Why, When, and Where Did Language Go Public" Common Knowledge Fall 1992.
Hacking, Ian, "On Kripke's and Goodman's Uses of 'Grue'." Philosophy , 68 (July 1993), 269-295.
Hacking, Ian, "Goodman's New Riddle is Pre-Humian." Revue internationale de philosophie , 46 (1993), 229-243.
Hacking, Ian, "Some Reasons for Not Taking Parapsychology Very Seriously." Dialogue , 32 (1993), 587-594.
Hacking, Ian, "The Looping Effects of Human Kinds." In Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann J. Premack, Eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. pp. 351-394.
Hacking, Ian, "Entrenchment." In GRUE: the New Riddle of Induction David Stalker, Ed. LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1994.
Hacking, Ian, ""Paul Feyerabend, Humanist." Common Knowledge Fall 1994.
Hacking, Ian, "Rewriting the Soul" History of the Human Sciences November 1995.
Hacking, Ian. Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.: "Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the 'MPD' community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking use the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injury.

"What is it like to suffer from multiple personality? Most diagnosed patients are women: why should gender matter? How does defining an illness affect the behavior of those who suffer from it? And, more generally, how do systems of knowledge about kinds of people interact with the people who are known about? Answering these and similar questions, Hacking explores the development of the modern multiple personality movement. He then turns to a fascinating series of historical vignettes about an earlier wave of multiples, people who were diagnosed when new ways of thinking about memory emerged, particularly in France, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Fervently occupied with the study of hypnotism, hysteria, sleepwalking, and fugue, scientists of this period aimed to take the soul away from the religious sphere. What better way to do this than to make memory a surrogate for the soul and then subject it to empirical investigation?

"Made possible by these nineteenth-century developments, the current outbreak of dissociative disorders is embedded in new political settings. Rewriting the Soul concludes with a powerful analysis linking historical and conemporary material in a fresh contribution to the archaeology of knowledge. As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that clasifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory; the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive." from the book jacket
Hacking, Ian, "The Looping Effects of Human Kinds." In Causal Cognition: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann J. Premack, Eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Hacking, Ian, "On an Alleged Anti-Linguistic Turn." Common Knowledge Fall 1995.
Hacking, Ian, "John Searle's Building Blocks." History of the Human Sciences , (1997)
Hacking, Ian, "Searle, Reality, and the Social." History of the Human Sciences , 10:4 (November 1997), 83-
Hacking, Ian, "Les Alienes voyageurs: How Fuge Became a Medical Entity." History of Psychiatry
Hacking, Ian Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Hacking, Ian, "Teenage Pregnancy: Social Construction?" In Early Parenting as a Social and Ethical Issue David Checkland and James Wong, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Hacking, Ian, "Canguilhem Amid the Cyborgs." Economy and Society , 27 (1998), 202-216.
Hacking, Ian, "Are You a Social Constructionist?" Lingua Franca (May/June 1999), 65-72.: Excerpted from The Social Construction of What?.
Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.: "In May 1999 Harvard University Press will publish Ian Hacking's new book The Social Construction of What? Hacking, University Professor at the University of Toronto, has worked in a wide number of fields from philosophy of language to philosophy of science to the behavioral sciences. In his new book, he defies the widely held belief that the "Analytic Philosophers" and the "Continental Philosophers" cannot be friends. Equally at home in the writings of W. V. Quine and Michel Foucault, Hacking is a gifted expositor of the recondite and is the chief explainer of the most abstruse realms of philosophy.

"Talk of social construction is all the rage, but it is also detested. For some people it is liberating. Mothers, for example, learn that the roles and expectations of motherhood are seldom the consequence of biological necessity but are instead "social constructions," which are not as binding as had been thought. For others, social construction work is destructive and often ignorant; nowhere is this hostility more deeply felt than by critics of social construct analyses of the natural sciences.

"There have been dozens of books and hundreds of articles with the title "The Social Construction of ..." Many fundamentally different kinds of things are said to be constructed--brotherhood, the child viewer of television, facts, gender, quarks, and reality. Ian Hacking urges us to say exactly what is supposed to be socially constructed in any situation. A person? An object? A theory? An institution? Different "what's" mean different notions of social construction.

Drawing on his background as a distinguished philosopher of science, Hacking excavates the deep issues that underlie the recent "science wars." In The Social Construction of What he offers an impartial and respectful examination of the culture wars from all sides. He ranges widely over the literature--including science, gender, and culture based work--of social construction, clarifying what constructionism is about and why it has generated so much excitement in academia. This book is up-to-the-minute and informed about an amazing array of topics. Written with generosity and gentle wit, the book is anchored in a tradition that prizes clarity more than enthusiasm, that values respect of polemics, and prefers reasoning to exhortation. It will transform the entire family of debates about social construction." from the Harvard University Press publicity release

"Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. The Social Construction of What? explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.

"Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse--very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the 'culture wars' in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much need measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge." from the cover of the advance page proofs

Contents: 1. Why Ask What? 2. Too Many Metaphors. 3. What about the Natural Sciences? 4. Madness: Biological or Constructed? 5. Kind-making: The Case of Child Abuse. 6. Weapons Research. 7. Rocks. 8 The End of Captain Cook.
Haidu, Peter, "Semiotics and History." Semiotica , 40:3-4 (1982), 187-228.: See also Marike Finlay-Pelinski, "Semiotics or History: From Content Analysis to Contextualized Praxis.""
Hamerow, Theodore S., "The Bureaucratization of History." American Historical Review , 94:3 (June 1989), 654-660.
Hamerow, Theodore S. Reflections on History and Historians. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Harlan, David, "Intellectual History and the Return of Literature." American Historical Review , 94:3 (June 1989), 581-609.
Harlan, David, "Reply to David Hollinger." American Historical Review , 94:3 (June 1989), 622-626.
Harlen, David. The Degradation of American History Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997.: "American historical writing has traditionally been one of our primary forms of moral reflection. However, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential and took up the methodology of the social sciences. In this provocative new book, Harlan describes the reasons for this turn to objectivity and professionalism, explains why it failed, and examines the emergence of a New Traditionalism in American historical writing." from the back cover
Harootunian, H. D. Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.: "This long-awaited work explores the place of tokugaku (rendered here as 'nativism') during Japan's Tokugawa period. Kokugaku, the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese sense of difference grounded in folk tradition, agricultural values, and ancient Japanese religion. H. D. Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.

"To contest the sinocentric conception of identity, Japanese nativists concentrated on producing a knowledge about being Japanese through a reading of texts belonging to the native tradition. Yet, as Harootunian demonstrated, this reading was really a reworking of texts in order to show how language, sensibility, and belief had been distorted and even repressed by the imposition of Chinese culture. the recognition of an authentic language and belief system that had existed before the importation of an alien civilization prompted nativists to demand the restoration of these elements of 'pure' culture as a means of recovering wholeness and unity in contemporary life. Late nativists went even further to propose that active religious practice had to be expressed in work in order to reproduce the conditions of creation.

"Harootunian show how in time nativism, conceived as a defense of difference, itself became the site of sameness. With the proclamation of Japanese identity in the name of cultural unity and ethnic homogeneity, what had begun as a visible discourse on the social was transmuted into an invisible ideology devote to securing a consensual order."

"As in his previous work, Harootunian foregrounds the theoretical issue raised in the course of his discussion. rejecting the procedures of 'common sense history' still dominant in Japanese studies, he draws on the insights of poststructuralist and marxist critics to develop a method of reading nativism." from the back cover
Harootunian, Harry History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming. pub date: May 2000. The Wellek Library Lectures.: "Our understanding of the culture and geopolitics of the world around us has been characterized by a partitioning between an ;inside' and an 'outside' that has succeeded in producing categories that act as boundaries. Yet even as the postmodern academic community professes awareness of the capricious nature of such barriers, scholars regularly operate within the strictures implied. Contemporary history has shown that as these barriers become ever less logical, the meaning of modernity is thrown sharply into question.

"In History's Disquiet, acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing the European and Japanese conceptions of modernity--as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun--Harootunian seeks to expose the archaic nature of scholarly categories. In demystifying these rigid categories, he demonstrates how they can be escaped.

"As elegantly written as it is controversial, History's Disquiet is a book that will be widely read and debated in a spectrum of fields ranging from postcolonial studies to intellectual history. It is both an invitation for rethinking intellectual boundaries and an invigorating affirmation that such boundaries can indeed be broken down." from the Columbia Univeristy Press Spring 2000 catalog
Haskell, Thomas L., "The Curious Persistence of Rights Talk in the 'Age of Interpretation.'" Journal of American History , 74 (1987),
Haskell, Thomas L., Review of Historical Truth and Lies about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan, by Alan B. Spitzer. American Historical Review , 103:2 (April 1998), 482-483.
Hawthorn, Geoffrey. Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.: "Plausible Worlds is an original study of the place of counterfactual judgments in explanation in history and the social sciences. All explanations suggest counterfactuals but unlike many recent theorists of history and the social sciences, Geoffrey Hawthorn argues that there can be no theoretical answer to the question of precisely which counterfactuals to admit. We must use our judgment, and in particular our practical judgment. Such judgments, however, are inherently particular, and the arguments must be made through examples. Accordingly Hawthorn takes three: mortality from plague in early modern Europe and rural fertility in France and England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the United States' occupation of southern Korea between 1945 and 1948; and Duccio's painting in Florence and Siena. The argument that emerges from all three casts doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences." from the flyleaf.
Hayes, Tom, "Diggers, Ranters, and Women Prophets: The Discourse of Madness and the Cartesian Cogito in Seventeenth-Century England." Clio , 26:1 (Fall 1996), 29-50.
Hearn, Jeffrey, "Poststructuralism and the Study of the Past: An Introduction in Spite of Itself." Maryland Historian , 24:1 (1993), 1-7.: "Relates structuralism to poststructuralism to history while defining the key elements in understanding these related philosophical approaches." G. O. Gagnon, Historical Abstracts Vol. 46, Part A (1993), 648.
Heise, Ursula K. Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism. Cambridge University Press.: "In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a new culture of time in Western societies. Drawing on theories of postmodernism and narratology, she shows how postmodern narratives break up the concept of plot into a spectrum of contradictory story lines that allow new conceptions of history and posthistory to emerge. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of postmodernist theory and fresh insight into the often vexing relationship between literature and science." from the Cambridge University Press catalog
Henning, E. M., "Report on the Recent 'Conference on the Future of European Intellectual History'." Intellectual History Newsletter , 2 (Fall, 1980), 28-32.
Higashi, Sumiko, "Rethinking Film as American History." Rethinking History , 2:1 (Spring 1998), 87-101.: "Abstract: An extended review of Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond, edited by Robert Brent Toplin, and Robert Burgoyne's Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at US History, this essay contrasts the way historians and film theorists write about film as history. Whereas film critics interested in close readings privilege signification or how texts construct meanings, historians focus on issues of authenticity. A good example of historians on film is Ken Burns's The Civil War. Although Burns's film as extremely successful as television programming, 'new' social historians writing history from below objected to the film's conventional representation of the Civil War as military history. Absent was thoughtful discussion about issues of slavery and emancipation and the social revolution engineered by the war. Yet the public responded to Burns's evocative rendering of the cult of the warrior, a cult that was especially resonant in a post-Vietnam War era. Indeed, audiences are mostly responsive to representations of history, like The Civil War and Forrest Gump, that evoke sentiment without raising troubling questions about the past.

"A film theorist, Robert Burgoyne gives close readings of Glory, Thunderheart, Born on the Fourth of July, and JFK to show how films play an important role in the formation of a national consciousness and identity. Stressing genres as cultural forms that reverberate with unresolved social issues regarding race and gender, he discusses rewritings of both the western and melodrama. Burgoyne also demonstrates that modernist and postmodernist rather than realist representations are more provocative as film-making styles interrogating the past. Concluding with a discussion of a conservative film, Forrest Gump, he comments on 'prosthetic memory' as a form of mediated access to the past that amounts to historical amnesia, but is nonetheless an expression of national consciousness."
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, "Some Reflections on the New History." American Historical Review , 94:3 (June 1989), 661-670.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, "Telling It as You Like It: Post-modernist History and the Flight for Fact." Times Literary Supplement , (16 October 1992), 12-
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, "On Looking into the Abyss." In On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. New York: Knopf, 1994. pp. 3-26, 164-168.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, "Postmodernist History." In On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. New York: Knopf, 1994. pp. 131-161, 182-188.
Hinds, Katherine, "Joan Wallach Scott: Breaking New Ground for Women." Change , 17 (July/August 1985), 48-53.
Hodges, Jill, and Athar Hussain, "La police des familles." Ideology and Consciousness , 5 (Spring 1979), 87-123.: Review of La police des familles, by Jacques Donzelot (1977)
Hollinger, David A., "The Return of the Prodigal: The Persistence of Historical Knowing." American Historical Review 94 (June 1989), 610-621.
Hollinger, David A., "Reflections on the Jamesian Arch: A Response to Ian Hacking." New Literary History 21:2 (Winter 1990), 365-371.: See Hacking's articles "Two Kinds of 'New Historicism' for Philosophers" and "A Reply to David Hollinger."
Hollinger, David A., "Discourse about Discourse about Discourse? A Response to Dominick LaCapra." Intellectual History Newsletter 13 (1991), 15-18.
Hollinger, David A., Review of Objectivity is Not Neutrality, by Thomas L. Haskell. Journal of American History 85:4 (March 1999)
Holt, Thomas C., "Experience and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry." Critical Inquiry: Reprinted in James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian, Eds., Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 388-396.
Howard, John, Review of Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference." American Historical Review (December 1998), 1566
Howland, D. R. Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at Empire's End. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society series.: "D. R. Howland explores Chinas representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan -- the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of 'brushtalk,' in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further show how the Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant modes -- history and poetry -- as the textual and cultural basis of a shared civilization between the two societies.

"With Japan's decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China's relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change -- one that resulted in its decisive separation from Chinese civilization and, according to Howland, a destabilization of China's worldview. His examination of the ways in which Chinese perceptions of Japan altered in the 1880s reveals the crucial choice faced by the Chinese of whether to interact with Japan as 'kin,' based on geographical proximity and the existence of common cultural threads, or as a 'barbarian,' an alien force molded by European influence. By probing China's poetic and expository modes of portraying Japan, Borders of Chinese Civilization exposes the changing world of the nineteenth century and China's comprehension of it." from the back cover
Hudson, Pat, Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History. Labour History Review 55:1 (Spring 1990), 116-117.
Hull, Isabel V., "Feminist and Gender History: Through the Literary Looking Glass: German Historiography in Postmodern Times." Central European History 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 279-300.
Hutcheon, Linda, "The Postmodern Problematizing of History." English Studies in Canada 14 (1988),
Hutton, Patrick H. History as an Art of Memory Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1993.: "With a broad, interdisciplinary command of the subject, Patrick H. Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians, focusing especially on the work of Giambattista Vico, Maurice Halbwachs, Philippe Aries, and Michel Foucault. He surveys such questions as the roots of contemporary historical interest in the memory topic, the eternal paradox of repetition and recollection as moments of memory, the ways in which the art of memory has been refashioned to serve the needs of the modern age and becomes integrated into historical thinking, and historians' changing attitudes toward the historiographical tradition of scholarship on the French Revolution." from the back cover
Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge. Hanover, NH and London: Wesleyan University Press (University of New England), 1997.: "A preeminent intellectual historian here examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiograpy. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based since history's emergence as a professional discipline in the 19th century, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and called into question the very possibility of objective history. Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macrohistorical apprach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. Still, while the postmodern critique of traditional historiography offers important correctives to historical thought and practice, it 'has not destroyed the historian's commitment to recapturing reality or his or her belief in a logic of inquiry.'" from the back cover
Jacob, Margaret C., Review of The Killing of History, by Keith Windschuttle, andThe Opening of the American Mind, by Lawrence Levine. Journal of American History 85:2 (September 1998)
Jacques, T. Carlos, "From Savages and Barbarians to Primitives: Africa, Social Typologies, and History in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy." History and Theory 36:2 (May 1997) 190-215.: "This article describes the conceptual framework (what I call a 'style of reasoning') within which knowledge about Africa was legitimated in eighteenth-century French philosophy. The article traces a shift or rupture in this conceptual framework which, at the end of the eighteenth century, led to the emergence of new conditions for knowledge legitimation that altered Europe's perception of Africa. The article examines these two conceptual frameworks within the context of a discussion of the social theory of the time, which categorized Africans first as savages, and then, with the advent of our modern 'style of reasoning,' as primitives. The argument used to demonstrate this change in categorizations is historical. (In the terminology of Michel Foucault, the paper is an 'archaeological' investigation of knowledge about Africa.) The greater part of the article analyses in detail the principal social theory of Enlightenment philosophy, the stadial theory of society, with the aim of demonstrating how it determined what could be affirmed about Africa. The shift in the perception of Africans from savages to primitives involved as epistemological change in how societies were grasped. The article provides a greater understanding of the constitution of Africa as a cognitive construct, which is not only of theoretical concern; this construct shaped Europe's intervention in Africa, and continues to influence what we believe Africa is and should become."abstract
Jarausch, Konrad H., "Towards a Social History of Experience; Postmodern Predicaments in Theory and Interdisciplinarity." Central European History 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 427-443.
Jay, Martin, "The Textual Approach to Intellectual History" Strategies: Reprinted in Martin Jay, Force Fields.
Jay, Martin. Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique. New York and London: Routledge, 1993.: "At a time when no theoretical model dominates our intellectual landscape, cultural criticism may seem feebly eclectic and indecisive. But if competing theories are skillfully positioned into a force field of energies, sparks of insight may ensue. The metaphor of a force field, taken from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, suggests a constellation of juxtaposed rather than fully integrated impulses or elements in a relational network. Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America. The metaphor not only describes the ways these essays uneasily cohere into a patterned whole, but also serves to clarify many of the substantive issues they treat.

"The three main forces at work in this theoretical field are the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, post-structuralism, and the interrogation of vision and visuality that has become so pervasive in recent debates in the humanities. Each is present in varying degrees, sometimes in mutual support and sometimes tensely opposed, in essays that deal with a wide variety of themes--including post-modernist ethical theory, the aestheticization of politics, ideology critique after the collapse of the camera obscura model of false consciousness, the apocalyptic imagination in religious, scientific, and post-modernist thought, the anti-formalist impulse in modernist art, and current methodological debates in the humanities--as well as such figures as Bataille, Haberman, Schmitt, Heller, Arendt, Derrida, and de Man." from the back cover
Jelavich, Peter, "Contemporary Literary Theory: From Deconstruction Back to History." Central European History 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 360-380.: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Jenkins, Keith. Re-thinking History. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.: "Re-thinking History argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a methodological one. Drawing widely on developments in philosophy, literary theory, critical theory and politics, Keith Jenkins argues that history must abandon the search for objective truth about the past and come to terms with its own processes of production." from the jacket
Jenkins, Keith, "Marxism and Historical Knowledge: Tony Bennett and the Discursive Turn." Literature and History 3rd series, 3:1 (1994), 16-30.
Jenkins, Keith. On "What is History?": From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.: "Carr and Elton are still the starting point for the vast majority of introductory courses on the nature of history. Building on his highly successful Re-thinking History, Keith Jenkins explores in greater detail the influence of these key figures. He argues that historians need to move beyond their 'modernist' thinking and embrace the postmodern-type approaches of theorists such as Richard Rorty and Hayden White." from the back cover
Jenkins, Keith, Ed. The Postmodern History Reader London and New York: Routledge, 1997.: "The Postmodern History Reader is designed to introduce students of history to some of the debates taking place today regarding the relationship between contemporary postmodern thinking and history. It is composed of four parts. In the first ('On History in the Upper Case: For and Against Postmodern Histories') extracts are given from some ten historians/theorists, including J. F. Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Elizabeth Ermarth, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Christopher Norris, and Bryan Palmer. In the second ('On History in the Lower Case: For and Against the Lower Case') extracts include those by Roland Barthes, Hans Kellner, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Gabrielle Spiegel. In the third ('Nuanced and Ambiguous Others') extracts are taken from works by Joyce Appleby et al., Tony Bennett, and Susan Stanford Friedman. Part four of the text is composed of 'Debates from the Journals.' Here engagements between postmodern-type historians and those broadly opposed to them are examined. The debates are taken from Past and Present (Lawrence Stone, Patrick Joyce, and others), History and Theory (Ankersmit and Zagorin), Social History (Neville Kirk, Geoff Eley, Keith Nield, and others) and discussions of 'representations of the Holocaust' (drawing on Saul Friedlander, Hayden White, Robert Braun, Berel Lang, and others) which again includes extracts from History and Theory. The editor provides a lengthy general introduction and shorter introductions to each of the four sections." summary by the editor, History and Theory, 37:3 (October 1998), 422.

Includes: Keith Jenkins, "Introduction: On Being Open About Our Closures." Part 1. On History in the Upper Case: For and Against Postmodern Histories. Jean-Francois Lyotard, "The Postmodern Condition." Jean Baudrillard, "The Illusion of the End." Elizabeth Ermarth, "Sequel to History." Diane Elam, "Romancing the Postmodern," and "Feminism and Deconstruction." Robert Young, "White Mythologies: Writing History and the West." Iain Chambers, "Migrancy, Culture, Identity." Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism." Christopher Norris, "Postmodernizing History: Right-Wing Revsionism and the Uses of Theory." Bryan Palmer, "Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited." Part 2. On History in the Lower Case: For and Against the Collapse of the Lower Case. Roland Barthes, "The Discourse of History." Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." Hans Kellner, "Language and Historical Representation." Robert Berkhofer, "The Challenge of Poetics to (Normal) Historical Practice." Gertrude Himmelfarb, "Telling It As You Like It: Postmodernist History and the Flight From Fact." Geoffrey Elton, "Return to Essentials." Gabrielle Spiegel, "History, Historicism, and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages." Part 3. Nuance or Ambiguous Others. "Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, "Telling the Truth About History." Tony Bennett, "Outside Literature," and "Texts in History." Susan Stanford Friedman, "Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire." Part 4. Debates from the Journals. Extracts from Past and Present. Lawrence Stone, "History and Postmodernism." Patrick Joyce, "History and Postmodernism." Catriola Kelly, "History and Postmodernism." Lawrence Stone, "History and Postmodernism." Gabrielle Spiegel, "History and Postmodernism." Extracts from History and Theory. F. R. Ankersmit, "Historiography and Postmodernism." P. Zagorin, "Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations." Extracts from Social History. Neville Kirk, "History, Language, Ideas and Postmodernism: A Materialist View." Patrick Joyce, "The End of Social History?" Geoffrey Eley and Keith Nield, "Starting Over: The Present, The Postmodern and the Moment of Social History." Patrick Joyce, "The End of Social Hstory? A Brief Reply to Eley and Nield." History and Theory and Saul Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation: The Holocaust Debate. Saul Friedland, "Probing the Limits of Representation." Hayden White, "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth." Hans Kellner, "'Never Again' is Now." "Wulf Kansteiner, "From Exception to Exemplum: the New Approaches to Nazism and the 'Final Solution.'" Robert Braun, "The Holocaust and Problems of Representation." Berel Lang, "Is it Possible to Misrepresent the Holocaust?"
Jenkins, Keith Why History?: Ethics and Postmodernity London and New York: Routledge, 1999.: "Why History? is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a knowledge and understanding of the past is necessary, and if so, why?

"Why History? suggests that the goal of 'learning lessons from the past' is actually learning lessons from stories written by historians and others. If the past as history has no foundation, can anything ethical be gained from its study?

"Why History? presents liberating challenges to history and ethics, proposing that we have reached an emancipatory moment which is well beyond 'the end of history'." from the back cover of the paperback editin

Contents: Introduction: Living in Time but Outside History; Living in Morality but Outside Ethics. Part I: On the End of Metanarratives. Introduction. 1. On Jacques Derrida. 2. On Jean Baudrillard. 3. On Jean-Francois Lyotard. Part II: On the End of 'Proper History. Introduction. 4. On Richard Evans. 5. On Hayden White. 6. On Frank Ankersmit. Part III: Beyond Histories and Ethics. Introduction. 7. On Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth. 8. On David Harlan. Conclusion: Promisings.
Johnson, Eric A., "Reflections on an Old 'New History': Quantitative Social Science History in Postmodern Middle Age." Central European History 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 408-426.
Joyce, Patrick, "History and Post-Modernism I." Past and Present 135 (November 1992), 204-209.
Joyce, Patrick, "The Imaginary Discontents of Social History: A Note of Response to Mayfield and Thorne, and Lawrence and Taylor." Social History 18:1 (1993), 81-
Joyce, Patrick Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.: "This history is the story of two men, and of the stories they and others told in order that it might be known who they were. It is a history of identity, 'the self' and social identity, and the realm of 'the social' itself in which identity is located. It explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men who might be taken as representative of what 'working class' and 'middle class' meant in England in the nineteenth century. Class is seen to have been less significant than the various shapes of demos, and the two studies of individuals are complemented by a further study on narrative in pointing to the great importance of the collective subjects upon which democracy rested.

"The book indicates the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of Patrick Joyce's engagement with 'post-modernist' theory, seeking the relevance of this theory for the writing of history, and in the process offering a critique of the conservatism of much academic history, particularly in Britain." from the back cover
Joyce, Patrick, "The End of Social History?" Social History 20:1 (1995), 73-
Joyce, Patrick, "The End of Social History? A Brief Reply to Eley and Nield." Social History 21:1 (1996), 96-
Kelly, Catriona., "History and Post-Modernism II." Past and Present 135 (November 1992), 209-213.
Kerber, Linda K., Review of Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott. International Labor and Working-Class History 39 (Spring 1991), 91-94.
Kessler-Harris, Alice, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott. Dissent 36 (Spring 1989), 274-277.
Kettering, Sharon, Review of The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789, by Jay M. Smith. American Historical Review 103:2 (April 1998), 526-527.: See also Jay M. Smith's letter to the editor in response to this review, and Kettering's response to Smith's letter.
Kettering, Sharon, Letter. American Historical Review 103:3 (June 1998), 1045.: A response to Jay M. Smith's letter to the editor concerning Kettering's review of his book, The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789.
Kirkland, John, Review of Prophets of Extremity, by Allan Megill. History and Theory 26:2 (1987), 204-213.
Klein, Kerwin Lee, "In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People Without History." History and Theory 34:3 (1995), 275-298.
Kloppenberg, James T., "Deconstruction and Hermeneutic Strategies for Intellectual History: The Recent Work of Dominick LaCapra and David Hollinger." Intellectual History Newsletter 9 (April 1987), 3-22.
Kloppenberg, James T., "Reply to LaCapra's 'Of Lumpers and Readers'." Intellectual History Newsletter 10 (April 1988), 11.
Koonz, Claudia, "Post Scripts." Women's Review of Books 6:4 (January 1989), 19-20.: Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History.
Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Translated from the German by Keith Tribe. 1979; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.: "In these fifteen essays, one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers of history invokes an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts to explore the concept of historical time. The witnesses include politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets, and the texts range from Renaissance paintings to the dreams of German citizens in the 1930s. Using these remarkable materials, Koselleck investigates the relationship of history to language, and of language to the deeper movements of human understanding." from the back cover
Koshar, Rudy J., "Playing the Cerebral Savage: Notes on Writing German History before the Linguistic Turn." Central European History 22: 3-4 (September/December 1989), 343-359.
Koshar, Rudy J., "Foucault and Social History: Comments on 'Combined Underdevelopment'." American Historical Review 98:2 (April 1993), 354-363.: "... notes that, although Engelstein raises important questions about Foucault's relevance to the study of social and political history, she elides what Koshar sees as productive contradictions of Foucault's account of disciplinary power. He adds that, in using Foucault's insights on the relationship of law and discipline, she constructs Russia as the illiberal 'Other' to an idealized West in much the same way that scholars of German exceptionalism have done in Sonderweg models. Koshar also questions Engelstein's depiction of state repression, pointing out that many scholars of the Nazi dictatorship have overestimated state control, and he argues that consideration ought to be given to the incompleteness of top-down power in the Russian and Soviet states." editor's note
Kramer, Lloyd S., "Intellectual History and Reality." Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 13:2-3 (1986), 517-545.
Kramer, Lloyd S., "Nations as Texts: Literary Theory and the History of Nationalism." Maryland Historian 24:1 (1993), 71-82.: "Reviews Nation and Narration (1990), a collection of essays edited by Homi K. Bhabha that investigates nationalism using the poststructuralist techniques of literary criticism. The dominant theories of nationalism are not greatly modified by poststructuralism, but they do reemphasize language in the formation of nationalism." G. O. Gagnon, Historical Abstracts, Vol. 46, Part A (1995), 666.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Who Rules Metaphor?" diacritics 10:4 (Winter 1980), 15-28.: Review of Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor.
LaCapra, Dominick. Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.: Includes: "Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Texts"; "A Poetics of Historiography: Hayden White's Tropics of Discourse"; "Reading Exemplars: Wittgenstein's Vienna and Wittgenstein's Tractatus"; "Who Rules Metaphor? Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Discourse": "Habermas and the Grounding of Critical Theory"; "Sartre and the Question of Biography"; "Marxism in the Textual Maelstrom: Frederic Jameson's The Political Unconscious"; "Reading Marx: the Case of The Eighteenth Brumaire"; "Bakhtin, Marxism, and the Carnivalesque"; "Marxism and Intellectual History."
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. American Historical Review 88 (June 1983), 648.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Is Everyone a Mentalite Case?: Transference and the 'Culture' Concept." History and Theory 23:3 (1984), 296-311.
LaCapra, Dominick. History and Criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.: Includes: "Rhetoric and History"; "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Twentieth-Century Historian"; "Is Everyone a Mentalite Case? Transference and the 'Culture' Concept"; "Writing the History of Criticism Now?"; "History and the Novel."
LaCapra, Dominick, "On Grubbing in My Personal Archives: An Historiographical Expose of Sorts (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Transference)." boundary 2 13:2-3 (Winter/Spring 1985), 43-67.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of Foucault, Marxism, and History, Mark Poster. American Historical Review 91 (June 1986), 628.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Comment." New Literary History 17 (Winter 1986), 219-221.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Criticism Today." In The Aims of Representation: Subject Text History. Columbia University Press, 1987. pp. 235-255.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of Sande Cohen, Historical Culture. American Historical Review 92 (April 1987), 376-377.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of The Open Boundary of History and Fiction, Suzanne Gearhart. Comparative Literature 39 (Spring 1987), 185-187.
LaCapra, Dominick, "History and Psychoanalysis." Critical Inquiry 13 (Winter 1987), 222-251.
LaCapra, Dominick, "A Review of a Review." Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (October/December 1988), 677-687.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Of Lumpers and Readers." Intellectual History Newsletter 10 (April 1988), 3-10.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of The Hidden Reader, Victor H. Brombert. Modern Language Quarterly 49 (September 1988), 295-298.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of The Content of the Form, Hayden V. White. American Historical Review 93 (October 1988), 1007-1008.
LaCapra, Dominick. Soundings in Critical Theory. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.: Includes: "Criticism Today"; History and Psychoanalysis"; "Chartier, Darnton, and the Great Symbol Massacre"; "The Temporality of Rhetoric"; "Culture and Ideology: From Geertz to Marx"; "Up against the Ear of the Other: Marx after Derrida"; "Intellectual History and Critical Theory."
LaCapra, Dominick, History, Politics, and the Novel Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Violence, Justice and the Force of the Law." Cardozo Law Review 11 (July/August 1990), 1065-1078.
LaCapra, Dominick, Ed. The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Canons and Their Discontents." Intellectual History Newsletter 13 (1991), 3-14.
LaCapra, Dominick, "The Temporality of Rhetoric." In Chronotypes Stanford University Press, 1991. pp. 118-147.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Intellectual History and Its Ways." American Historical Review 97 (April 1992), 425-439.
LaCapra, Dominick Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
LaCapra, Dominick, Review of The Self and Its Pleasures, Carolyn J. Dean. American Historical Review 99 (February 1994), 250-252.
LaCapra, Donimick, Review of Poetics of the New History, Philippe Carrard. Journal of Modern History 66 (June 1994), 354-359.
LaCapra, Dominick, "History, Literature and Reading: Waiting for Crillon." American Historical Review 100:3 (June 1995), 799-828.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Lanzmann's Shoah: 'Here There is No Why.'" Critical Inquiry 23 (Winter 1997), 231-269.: See also: Ora Gelley, "A Response to Dominick LaCapra's 'Lanzmann's Shoah'", Critical Inquiry 24 (Spring 1998), 830-832.
LaCapra, Dominick, "Equivocations of Autonomous Art." Critical Inquiry 24 (Spring 1998), 833-836.: See also: Ora Gelley, "A Response to Dominick LaCapra's 'Lanzmann's Shoah'", Critical Inquiry 24 (Spring 1998), 830-832.
LaCapra, Dominick and Steven L. Kaplan, Eds. Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.: Includes: Roger Chartier, "Intellectual History or Sociocultural History?"; Dominick La Capra, "Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Texts"; Martin Jay, "Should Intellectual History Take a Linguistic Turn? Reflections on the Habermas-Gadamer Debate"; Hans Kellner, "Triangular Anxieties: the Present State of European Intellectual History"; Mark Poster, "The Future According to Foucault: The Archaeology of Knowledge and Intellectual History"; E. M. Henning, "Archaeology, Deconstruction, and Intellectual History"; Keith Michael Baker, "On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution"; Peter Jelavich, "Popular Dimensions of Modernist Elite Culture: The Case of Theater in Fin-de Siecle Munich"; David James Fisher, "Reading Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents"; Hayden White, "Method and Ideology in Intellectual History: The Case of Henry Adams."
Levine, Lawrence W., "The Unpredictable Past: Reflections on Recent American Historiography." American Historical Review 94:3 (June 1989), 671-679.
Link, Jere, "The Play of German Histories: Protocolling the Debate." Central European History 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 444-457.
Lloyd, David, and Paul Thomas. Culture and the State. New York: Routledge, 1998.: "From the end of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable convergence took lace in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and the State relates this convergence in the social function of state and cultural institutions in modern society, analyzing how culture assumes the task of forming citizens for the modern state. By tracking the history of working class resistance to state educational institutions, David Lloyd and Paul Thomas locate this resistance in a refusal to countenance the very division of social spheres--educational, political, and economic--on which the idea of cultural education is based. In turn, the authors see nineteenth century working class radicalism as having embodied an alternative cultural politics--an alternative that prefigures contemporary social movements. Culture and the State engages the way to which leftist thinking, from Marx to contemporary cultural studies, has taken the concept of culture for granted, and failed fully to appreciate the intrinsic relation of culture to the idea of the state." from the back cover

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Lorenz, Chris, "Historical Knowledge and Historical Reality: A Plea for 'Internal Realism.'" History and Theory 33: 3 (1994), 297-327.
Louch, Alfred, "The Discourse of Subversion." Humanities in Society 2:1 (Winter 1979), 31-36.
Lynch, M., "Old Games and New: A Response to the Structural Diagnosis and Traditional Modern and Postmodern Historiography in the Study of 16th-Century Scotland." Scot Hist R 73/195 (1994), 47-63.
MacHardy, Karin J., "Crises in History, or: Hermes Unbounded." Storia della Storigrafia 17 (1990), 5-27.
MacHardy, K., "The Boundaries of History and Literature." In Fact and Fiction: German History and Literature 1848-1924. K. MacHardy and G. Brude-Firnau, Eds. Tubingen: Francke, 1990. pp. 11-25.
MacLeod, Dewar, "Texts are Good to Eat: Representations and Subjectivity in Social and Cultural History." Maryland History 24:1 (1993), 29-41.: "Discusses subtle variations in the theoretical nuances separating postmodern and poststructuralist writings, which threaten 'to undermine the study of the past.' Agency is the fundamental category in social history and this is not in conflict with poststructuralist challenges to the study of the past." G. O. Gagnon, Historical Abstracts, Vol. 46, part A (1995), 643.
Malik, Kenan, "A Dose of Constructive Criticism." The Independent (17 June 1999).: Review of The Social Construction of What?, by Ian Hacking.
Marwick, Arthur, "Two Approaches to Historical Study: the Metaphysical (Including 'Postmodernism') and the Historical." Journal of Contemporary History 30 (1995), 5-35.
Maynard, Steven, "'Respect Your Elders, Know Your Past': History and the Queer Theorists." Radical History Review 75 (Fall 1999), 56-78.: "In 'Respect Your Elders, Know Your Past,' Steven Maynard seeks to open a dialogue between queer theorists and lesbian and gay social historians. Taking up concerns expressed by the editors of RHR's 'Queer Issue,' Maynard's method, borrowed from Raymond Williams, is to suggest keywords around which a conversation may take place. His goal is to rescue history from the 'enormous condescension' with which queer theory has criticized its practitioners, and also to overcome historians' dismissal of theory as simply 'jargon.' Memory is a key issue in this debate, because so much of the historians' efforts have gone into the recovery of gay and lesbian experience, while so much of the theorists' efforts have gone into critiquing the category of 'experience.' Maynard's keywords are empoiricism, evidence, experience, materialism, Marxism, class, and queer, in addition to 'jargon' and 'history.' Along the way, he provies telling examples of some of the ways communication can be opened between queer theory and social history." from the editor's introduction
McCullagh, C. Behan The Truth of History London and New York: Routledge, 1998.: "Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. Through an examination of the constraints of history, the author argues that although historical descriptions do not mirror the past they can correlate with it in a regular and definable way.

"The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and evaluates their success as accounts of the past. C. Behan McCullagh argues that the variety of historical interpretations and their subjectivity does not exclude the possibility of their fairness and truth. His arguments are illustrated with numerous illuminating concrete examples from historical writing." from the back cover of the paperback edition

Contents: Introduction. 1. The Truth and Fairness of Historical Descriptions. 2. The Truth of Historical Generalizations and Classifications. 3. Descriptive Explanations. 4. Historical Interpretations. 5. The Meaning of Texts. 6. The Truth of Cultural History. 7.Causal, Contrastive and Functional Explanations. 8. Explaining Individual Actions. 9. Explaining Collective Actions. 10. Explaining Social Changes. 11. Should We Privilege the Individual? Conclusion.
Megill, Allan, "Foucault, Structuralism, and the Ends of History." Journal of Modern History 51 (September 1979), 451-503.
Megill, Allan, "Recent Writing on Michel Foucault." Journal of Modern History 56 (September 1984), 499-511.: Review of Michel Foucault and the Subversion of Intellect, Karlis Racevskis, Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture, Pamela Major-Poetzl; Michel Foucault, Charles C. Lemert and Garth Gillian; Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics; and Michel Foucault: An Annotated Bibliography.
Megill, Allan. Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Megill, Allan, "Rhetoric and History: Notes on a Symposium." Intellectual History Newsletter 7 (April 1985), 19-25.
Megill, Allan, "The Reception of Foucault by Historians." Journal of the History of Ideas 48:1 (January-March 1987), 117-141.
Megill, Allan, Review of Spirit in Ashes, Edith Wyschogrod. Journal of Modern History 59 (June 1987), 354-356.
Megill, Allan, Review of Reflections on History and Historians, Theodore Hamerow. History and Theory 27:1 (1988), 94-106.
Megill, Allan, "Recounting the Past: 'Description,' Explanation and Narrative in Historiography." American Historical Review 94:3 (June 1989), 627-653.
Megill, Allan, "What Does the Term 'Postmodern' Mean?" Annals of Scholarship 6 (1989), 129-151.
Megill, Allan, Review of The Aesthetic State, Josef Chytry. History and Theory 30:1 (1991), 70-79.
Megill, Allan, Review of Knowing and History, Michael S. Roth, and Subjects of Desire, Judith Butler. Journal of Modern History 63 (March 1991), 124-128.
Megill, Allan, "Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography." American Historical Review 96 (June 1991), 693-698.: Concerns Peter Novick's That Noble Dream.
Megill, Allan, Review of Poetics of the New History, Philippe Carrard. American Historical Review 98 (December 1993), 1556-1557.
Megill, Allan, Ed. Rethinking Objectivity Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Post-contemporary Interventions.: The essays in this book originally appeared in volume 8, number 3/4 (1991) of Annals of Scholarship.
Megill, Allan, "Introduction: Four Senses of Objectivity." In Rethinking Objectivity Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Post-contemporary Interventions.
Megill, Allan, "Jorn Rusen's Theory of Historiography Between Modernism and Rhetoric of Inquiry." History and Theory 33:1 (1994), 39-60.
Megill, Allan, Review of Postmodernism and Its Critics, John McGowan. Comparative Literature Studies 31:2 (1994), 191-195.
Megill, Allan, "Historicizing Nietzsche?: Paradoxes and Lessons of a Hard Case." Journal of Modern History 68 (March 1996), 114-152.
Megill, Allan, Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community, by Richard F. Hamilton. American Historical Review 103:2 (April 1998), 483-484.
Mehlman, Jeffrey. Revolution and Repetition: Marx/Hugo/Balzac. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.: "In this book, Mr. Mehlman reopens the question of the relation between Marx's writings and the institution of literature. He presents not an application of Marxian categories to literary texts, but a delineation of how the phenomenon of revolution in France is refracted through two divergent series of writings. The first is Marx's Class Struggles in France 1848-1850, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and The Civil War in France; the second consists of two exemplary nineteenth-century novels on revolution: Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize and Balzac's Les Chouans.

"The book is also an essay on the limits and opportunities of reading per se. Within a series of precise textual analyses, the reader will encounter Jean Laplanche's lectures on 'anxiety' in Freud, Jacques Derrida's Glas, Lukacs' 'Balzac,' and Michel Foucault's genealogy of prisons, Surveiller et punir. As such, this volume is a working introduction to what may be termed French 'post-structuralism." from the back cover
Minson, Jeffrey. Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.: "The problem of Michel Foucault has not been diminished by his death. The difficulties of obituarists in finding the right classification -- philosopher? historian? sexologist? penologist? structuralist? anti-structuralist? -- merely duplicate the problems of his life and work. This book does not propose to answer those questions. There have already been enough commentaries of that order.

"What is offered here is simply an attempt to use Foucault's work, to get to grips with the kinds of considerations which have made these writings so controversial and unclassifiable. This book proposes a set of openings into an unfamiliar terrain of argument. It shows what is surprisingly in common between Left and Right positions in personal politics (for instance, in the controversy over abortion); why the unlikely figure of Nietzsche should be relevant to current investigations of the history of social institutions such as the prison and the family; in what ways the work of Foucault and Donzelot might present serious problems to mainstream feminism and radical sociology. In other words, this book is concerned to break down the massive intractability of a foreign oeuvre by dealing critically with the precise political and theoretical bearings of Foucault's arguments.

"A word about the title, Genealogies of Morals describes and delineates the historical production of the whole space of personalist ethics but this historicization continues to recognize the importance of categories of the personal in contemporary political and administrative debate.

"If one were to sum up the relevance of Foucault's 'genealogies of morals' to contemporary political debate, it would lie in their attempt to engage with the complex ethico-political configuration of 'liberalism.'" from the dust jacket
Morris, Meaghan Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Theories of Contemporary Culture, vol. 22.: "Cultural studies is an intellectual discipline with a project, a family of concepts, and a vast literature. But has it a method of its own? Is cultural studies possible? In Too Soon Too Late Morris approaches these questions through a focus on the problem of 'history' for cultural studies, so often seen as concerned only with the contemporary and the ephemeral. She demonstrates here the importance of desiring history, exploring its meaning and value in several senses: as discourse about the past, context for theoretical speculation, method for cultural studies, and something represented and contested in popular and public culture." from the back cover of the paperback edition
Muller, Jerry Z., "Challenging Political Correctness; A 'Paranoid Hysteric' Replies to Joan Scott." AHA Perspectives 31:5 (1993), 13
Munslow, Alun. Deconstructing History. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.: "Few historians now maintain that they write the truth about the past. Deconstructive readings of history and sources have changed the entire discipline of history. In Deconstructing History, Alun Munslow examines history in the postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest research into the relationship between the past, history and historical practice as well as forwarding his own challenging theories.

"The author details both empiricist and deconstructionist issues and considers the arguments of major proponents of both schools. He includes an examination of the character of historical evidence, chapters on Hayden White and Michel Foucault, exploration of the role of historians, discussion of the limits of traditional historical methods, an evaluation of the importance of historical narrative, an up-to-date, comprehensive bibliography, [and] an extensive glossary of key terms.

"Deconstructing History maps the philosophical field, outlines the controversies involved and assesses the merits of the deconstructionist position. Alun Munslow debates the importance of history as the textual product of historians. He argues that instead of beginning with the past, history begins with its representations." from the back cover
Munslow, Alun, Review of Companion to Historiography, Michael Bentley, Ed. Rethinking History 2:1 (Spring 1998), 115-118.
Munslow, Alun. The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies New York: Routledge, 2000. Publication date: February 2000.: "The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much needed critical introduction to the key issues, the historians and philosophers, and their concepts, ideas, and theories that have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace in the 1990s. Key concepts for the new history--including class, empiricism, hermeneutics, inference, metanarrative, relativism, and teleology--are examined through the ideas of leading historians and philosophers since the eighteenth century such as Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, Collingwood, White, Foucault, and Derrida. With an introduction setting out the state of the discipline of history today and alphabetical entries on the key ideas, issues, and concepts. The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies explores the exciting challenges that history faces in the late twentieth century." from the Routledge catalog
Murphey, Murray G., Review of The Logic of Historical Explanation, Clayton Roberts American Historical Review 102:4 (October 1997), 1117-1118.
Niethammer, L. Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End? London and New York: Verso, 1992.
Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. The Wisconsin Project of American Writers.: "Repression and Recovery ... is a prolegomenon to what I imagine to be a series of future projects-for both myself and others-about American poetry from 1910 to 1945. It is thus not a complete history but rather an overview of the problematics of writing one and a provocation to reexamine what remains the dominant story of modern poetry. It is also an effort to revise our notion of the social function of poetry, an effort grounded in a series of rereadings of marginalized or forgotten poets-particularly women, blacks, and writers on the left-and in a theoretical discussion of poetry's cultural status as a discourse among others. The book proceeds at once by way of a continuing meditation on the assumptions underlying the way modern literary history has been written and by way of brief comments on a large number of modern poets, many of whom are now rarely reprinted, read, or even acknowledged in criticism on the period. My reflections on literary history include critiques of our received views of modernism as well as an analysis of the problematics of both canon formation and the continuing effort to expand the canon so that it includes a wider number of neglected writers. Finally, Repression and Recovery is also a Marxist and poststructuralist analysis of the difficulties and temptations inherent in reading modern poetry at a moment when we are beginning to realize some of what we have lost of our cultural heritage. I do not, however, view these theoretical commitments as the components of a seamless metadiscourse but rather as mutually corrective impulses." from the Preface
Nelson, Cary, "Relativism, Politics, and Ethics: Writing Literary History in the Shadow of Poststructuralism." in his Manifesto of a Tenured Radical New York: New York University Press, 1997. Cultural Front. pp. 39-51.
Nelson, John, "Tropal History and the Social Sciences: Reflections on Struever's Remarks." History and Theory Beiheft 19 (1980), 80-101.
Nelson, John S., Allen Megill, and Donald S. McCloskey, Eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Newton, Judith, "Family Fortunes: 'New History' and 'New Historicism.' Radical History Review 43 (January 1989), 5-22.
Noiriel, Gerard, "Foucault and History: The Lessons of a Disillusion." Journal of Modern History 66 (September 1994), 547-568.
Norris, Christopher, "Postmodernizing History: Right-Wing Revisionism and the Uses of Theory." Southern Review (Adelaide) 21:2 (July 1988), 123-140.
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.: "The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they write history -- how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

"Part One, which treats the years from the founding of the profession in the 1880s down to World War I, considers the cultural, political and professional context in which 'objectivity' became the central sacred term of American historians. Part Two, dealing with World War I and the interwar years examines how, in a changed climate, the 'relativist critique' took hold, putting spokesmen for objectivity on the defensive. The theme of Part Three, covering the years of World War II and the cold war, is the attempt of the historical profession to establish a new, somewhat chastened, objectivist synthesis, trivializing the relativist critique by partially incorporating it. Part Four treats the years since the mid-1960s and is a story of the cultural, political, and professional influences that caused the collapse of the postwar synthesis, leading to the present period of confusion, polarization, and uncertainty, in which the idea of historical objectivity has become more problematic than ever before." from the back cover
Offen, Karen, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Journal of Modern History 62 (June 1990), 356-358.
Pagden, Anthony, "Rethinking the Linguistic Turn: Current Anxieties in Intellectual History." Journal of the History of Ideas 49:3 (July-September 1988), 519-529.
Palmer, Bryan D., "Response to Joan Scott." International Labor and Working-Class History 31 (Spring 1987), 14-23.
Palmer, Bryan D. Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Critical Perspectives on the Past series.
Palmer, Bryan D., ""The Condition of Postmodernity and the Poststructuralist Challenge to Political and Historical Meaning." Maryland Historian 24:1 (1993), 54-70.: "Reviews five works on the relationships between postmodernism, poststructuralism, and historiography: David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (1989), Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Mark Poster's The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context (1990) and Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context (1989), and Fred Weinstein's History and Theory after the Fall: An Essay on Interpretation (1990). G. O. Gagnon, Historical Abstracts, Vol. 46, Part A (1995), 644
Palmer, Bryan D. "Old Positions/New Necessities: History, Class and Marxist Metanarrative" in In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster, Eds. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.
Parker, Christopher, "Methods, Ideas and Historians." Literature and History 288-291.: Review of R. W. Fogel and G. R. Elton, Which Road to the Past?, MARHO, Visions of History and Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History.
Partner, Nancy, "Making Up Lost Time: Writing on the Writing of History." Speculum 61 (1986), 90-117.
Partner, Nancy, "History without Empiricism/Truth without Facts." In Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl, Eds.: State College, PA, 1994. pp. 1-10.
Partner, Nancy F., Review of Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England., Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, Eds. American Historical Review 102:5 (December 1997), 1468-1469.
Patterson, Thomas C. "Post-structuralism, post-modernism: Implications for Historians." Social History 14:1 (January 1989), 83-88.
Phillips, Mark, "Historiography and Genre: A More Modest Proposal." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Pierson, Stanley, Review of Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History. Contemporary Literature 359-361.
Pomeranz, Kenneth, Review of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, Prasenjit Duara. American Historical Review 102:4 (October 1997), 1206-1207.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. 1988. Women in Culture and Society Series.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault's True Discourses." Humanities in Society 2:2 (Spring 1979), 153-166.
Poster, Mark, Review of Frederic Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 36:2 (September 1981), 252-256.
Poster, Mark, "The Future According to Foucault: The Archaeology of Knowledge and Intellectual History." In Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives. Dominick LaCapra and Steven L. Kaplan, Eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. pp. 137-152.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault and History." Social Research 49:1 (1982), 116-142.
Poster, Mark., "Introduction." In Foucault and Critical Theory: The Uses of Discourse Analysis. Special issue of Humanities in Society 5:3-4 (Summer/Fall 1982), 173-174.
Poster, Mark, "Mode of Production, Mode of Information: Toward of Critique of Political Economy." Humanities in Society 5:3-4 (Summer/Fall 1982), 213-230.
Poster, Mark, Review of Edith Kurzweil, The Age of Structuralism: Levi-Strauss to Foucault. Science and Society 46:3 (Fall 1982), 374-376.
Poster, Mark, Review of Charles Lemert and Garth Gillan, Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression. Telos 56 (Summer 1983), 206-210.
Poster, Mark. Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of Production versus Mode of Information. Oxford, UK: Polity Press/New York and Cambridge, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1984.: "Mark Poster examines the recent work of Michel Foucault and its relation to other approaches in social theory and social history. Foucault's thought is seen as both a continuation of, and yet a departure from, the Western Marxist tradition, Poster analyses the classical texts of Marxism and neo-Marxism, pointing to the respects in which they are inadequate for a critical theory of advanced industrial society. He argues that Foucault's work offers new directions for social history and social criticism, in particular Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality exemplify a Nietzschean approach to history and provide the resources for a contemporary critique of the human sciences.

"The main themes explored in the book are that an emerging social formation -- the 'mode of information' -- requires a rethinking of the theory and practice of history and that Foucault's recent work is the most helpful point of departure for that project. As social action increasingly incorporates electronically mediated linguistic experience, the traditional theory of the mode of production no longer serves adequately as a basis of critical theory, Foucault's strategy of discourse/practice, properly grounded in a theory of the mode of information, enables us to understand new modes of domination and new sources of radical protest." from the back cover
Poster, Mark, Review of Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. In Telos 60 (Summer 1984), 224-226.
Poster, Mark, "Interpreting Texts: Some New Directions." Southern California Law Review 58:1 (1985), 15-18.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece." In Foucault: A Critical Reader. David Couzens Hoy, Ed. Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1986. pp. 205-220.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault, Post-Structuralism, and the Mode of Information." In The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History. Murray Krieger, Ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. pp. 107-130.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault, the Present and History." Cultural Critique 8 (Winter 1987/88), 105-121.
Poster, Mark. Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.: "In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. This confrontation between poststructuralists who represent 'postmodern' thought and theorists committed to the 'modern' project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation.

"In the eight essays collected here Poster continues the assessment of critical social theory he began in Foucault, Marxism, and History (1985), and develops his perception that the most important changes in contemporary society are taking place not at the level of social action, but at the level of language, and as a result of the revolution in our experience of language brought about by rapid advances in computer and media technology. Poster considers the major challenges to critical theory raised by the decolonization movement, which questions the ability of Western thought productively to critique Western forms of domination; and by the feminist movement, which detects patriarchal elements within Western theory, not excepting critical theory. He demonstrates how these theoretical developments, together with the effects of the proliferations of electronic communication systems, cast into doubt not only the familiar configuration of the social landscape that has been the target of critical theory but the very subject of that theory -- including the position of the knower and the assumptions of the theorist. Poster urges that poststructuralist criticism be integrated into a new critical theory which he calls the mode of information. Poststructuralist theory, he concludes, with its focus on language and its critique of Western reason, has much to offer for the reconstruction of critical theory; and he suggests, as did Foucault himself near the end of his life, that poststructuralist theorists for their part work toward contextualizing their position in order to undertake a critique of the present."

from the back cover
Poster, Mark, "The Modern versus the Postmodern: The Franco-German Debate in Social Theory." In Politics and Society in Contemporary France and Germany. John Trumpbour, Ed. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1989. pp. 55-77.
Poster, Mark, Review of J. G. Merquior, Foucault. Critical Review 3:1 (Winter 1989), 155-160.
Poster, Mark, Review of Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory. American Historical Review 95:5 (December 1989), 1335-1336.
Poster, Mark, "Foucault and Data Bases." Discourse 12:2 (Spring/Summer 1990),
Poster, Mark, "Words without Things: The Mode of Information." October 53 (Summer 1990), 63-77.
Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago, 1990.: "When we watch TV, make phone calls, listen to radios, and use computers and fax machines, electronic devices mediate how we communicate. In each instance, we exchange symbols and information just as we have since humans began speaking and writing. What, then -- besides economy of space and time -- differentiates electronic communications from ordinary speech and writing?

The difference, Mark Poster argues, is the profound effect electronic mediation exerts on the very way we perceive ourselves and reality. He asserts that the flexibility of language which electronic mediation allows has created decentered meanings and a dispersed sense of self and society. To help decode the linguistic dimension of our multiple forms of social interaction , he offers the concept of the mode of information, a play upon Marx's theory of the mode of production: the shift to late capitalism has a parallel in the shift from the mode of production to that of information, our latest variant in the history of symbolic exchange. In addition, Poster insists that the configuration of information exchange, or its 'wrapping,' has a critical bearing on how we now live: the shift from oral and print 'wrapped' language to electronically 'wrapped' language has reconfigured our relation tothe world as well as to our entire network of social relations.

Poster enlists poststructuralist theory, with its focus on language, in his wide-ranging analysis of our electronically permeated culture. He links four modes of electronic communication with four poststructuralists and their theories: TV ads with Baudrillard, data bases with Foucault, electronic writing with Derrida, and computer science with Lyotard. Poster's revolutionary thesis -- that owing to our electronic society, we are constituted differently from our forebears -- points the way to a poststructuralist strategy for writing history, a framework well suited to unearthing structures of domination and the means to their disruption." from the back cover
Poster, Mark, The Subject of the Computer: Derrida and Electronic Writing." In Literature and Technology Jose Lambert, Ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Poster, Mark, "The Question of Agency: Michel de Certeau and the History of Consumerism." Diacritics 22:2 (Summer 1992), 94-
Poster, Mark, "Poststructuralism and History: A Position." The Maryland Historian 24:1 (Spring/Summer 1993),
Poster, Mark. The Second Media Age. London: Polity Press, and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1995.: "This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory. Poster evaluates critically the concepts of media and technology in various traditions of cultural theory, with the aim of rethinking the relations of humans to machines. The author also examines theories of post-modernity in relation to the new media and the debate over multiculturalism. He argues that new developments in electronic media, such a the Internet and Virtual Reality, may so alter our habits of communication and so deeply reposition our identities that the designation 'a second media age' is justified."

Poster assesses the contributions of theorists such as Baudrillard, Lyotard, Habermas, Haraway, and Guattari. He also develops further his own distinctive and original approach, building on his previous book The Mode of Information. Finally, Poster analyzes various cultural materials in light of his approach: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, and the televised reporting of the Gulf War. from the back cover
Poster, Mark. Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.: "What does it mean to write history in a postmodern age skeptical of the representational power of writing itself? And in a culture bounded by the work and the text, what is the status--and the political use--of historical truth?

"In a series of incisive readings of signature historical works, Mark Poster charts the move from social history to new practices of cultural history that are drawing strength from poststructuralist interpretive strategies and raising issues found in feminist and postcolonialist discourse. In the process, he sets forth an outline for a postmodern historiography that can negotiate the contested terrain between the ambiguities of discourse and the pull of the 'real.'

"As Poster provides close readings of leading historians and theorists such as Lawrence Stone, Francois Furet, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault, key themes animate his work: the often irreducible difference between high and low culture, production and consumption, and reality and fiction; and, most important, a new perspective on human agency and the construction of political subjects.

"The growth of electronic communication also prompts Poster to reassess the historian's task, since it reconfigures the relation of human to machine, mind to body, and the writing subject to the text. He makes a powerful argument for the importance of digital modes of information in gathering and communication knowledge, and in developing new ways of understanding the past."

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Poststructuralism and the Study of the Past. Special issue of The Maryland Historian 24:1 (Spring/Summer 1993).: Includes: Jeffrey Hearn, "Poststructuralism and the Study of the Past: An Introduction in Spite of Itself"; Patricia Seed, "Poststructuralism in Postcolonial History", Dewar MacLeod, "Texts are Good to Eat: Representation and Subjectivity in Social and Cultural History"; Linn Freiwald, "The Interrogation of Silence"; Mark Poster, "Poststructuralism and History: A Position"; Bryan Palmer, "The Condition of Postmodernity and the Poststructuralist Challenge to Political Meaning"; Lloyd S. Kramer, "Nations as Texts: Literary Theory and the History of Nationalism."
Potter, Pitman B., Review of Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to 'the People.', Michael R. Dutton. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 9:2 (Fall 1994).
Pugh, Martin, "Self-defeating Efforts." Times Literary Supplement (26 January 1989), 83.: Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History.
Quillan, Carol E., "Crossing the Line: Limits and Desire in Historical Interpretation." History and Theory 37:1 (February 1998), 40-68.: "Abstract: This essay focuses on the relationship within western humanism between attitudes toward textual interpretation and views of the human self in an attempt to unsettle the dichotomy between humanist and antihumanist approaches to the past. It has three main parts. First, it uses Umberto Eco's recent reflections on the limits of interpretations to explore current debates about the aims of interpretation. In particular, it asks what it means to frame the problem of interpretation specifically as a problem of establishing limits. Given the many possible vocabularies to compare and evaluate competing hermeneutic approaches, what are the implications of adopting one that speaks in terms of limits, of an 'in bounds' and an 'out of bounds'? Second, the essay draws on the work of Donna Haraway and Stephanie Jed to argue that a discourse about interpretation that seeks to establish the limits of interpretation excludes as out of bounds precisely those methodological strategies that most effectively analyze the mutually sustaining relationship between assumptions about texts and subjectivity a t one key historical moment to show how to move beyond the strict dichotomy between humanist and antihumanist assumptions."
Rabinbach, Anson, "Rationalism and Utopia as Languages of Nature: A Note." International Labor and Working-Class History 31 (Spring 1987), 30-36.
Ranciere, Jacques, "On the Theory of Ideology (The Politics of Althusser)." Radical Philosophy 7 (Spring 1974), 2-15.: See also: Ted Benton, "Ranciere and Ideology." Radical Philosophy 9 (Winter 1974), 27-28.
Ranciere, Jacques, "The Myth of the Artisan: Critical Reflections on a Category of Social History." In Work in France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. pp. 317-334.
Ranciere, Jacques. The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. 1981; Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989. Translated from the French by John Drury.: Translation of La Nuit de Proletaires: archives de Reve ouvrier (1981).
Ranciere, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Translated by Kristin Ross. Stanford University Press, 1991.
Ranciere, Jacques, "Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization." October 61 (Summer 1992), 78-82.
Ranciere, Jacques. The Name of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge Translated by Hassan Melehy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Forward by Hayden White.: "History in our day is still a story, and yet one that we expect to tell the truth -- not just the people and the events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can the language of history balance these seemingly contrary tasks, the narrative, the scientific, and the political? This is the question Jacques Ranciere explores in The Names of History, a meditation on the poetics of historical knowledge.

"In the works of writers from Jules Michelet to Fernand Braudel, Ranciere traces an ongoing revolution in historical study, a movement that has challenged, in the practice of language, the opposition of science and literature. By way of a commentary on Erich Auerbach, he shows how fictional narrative intertwines with historical narrative to produce a 'truth' that retains mythical elements.

"The poetics of knowledge Ranciere develops here is an attempt to identify the literary procedures by which historical discourse escapes literature and gives itself the status of a science. His book is also a consideration of Braudel, whose work in the Annales school advanced this project. Ranciere follows and extends Braudel's discursive production of new agencies of history, which accounts for the material conditions in which history takes place as well as the language in which it is written. Through an examination of Braudel's style, Ranciere valorizes the repressed literary side of history -- a model of which he finds in the work of Michelet.

"In closing, he insists on the interdisciplinary character of historical study, not least in connection with recent developments in philosophy and critical theory." from the University of Minnesota Press on-line catalog
Ranciere, Jacques. On the Shores of Politics. Translated from the French edition (1992) by Liz Heron. London and New York: Verso, 1995. Phronesis.: "It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. 'We could', he suggests, 'merely smile at the alacrity with which political administrators look forward to the time when politics will be over and they can at last get on with political business undisturbed. But it might be more interesting to take a close look at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a suppression /conclusion of philosophy.'

"This is precisely the task which Ranciere undertakes in these subtle and perceptive essays. He argues persuasively that since Plato and Aristotle politics has always constructed itself as the art of ending politics, that realism is itself utopian, and that what has succeeded the polemical forms of class struggle is not the wisdom of a new millennium but the return of old fears, criminality and chaos. Whether he is discussing the confrontation between Mitterrand and Chirac, French working-class discourse after the 1830 revolution, or the ideology of recent student mobilizations, his aim is to restore philosophy of politics and give politics back its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent." from the back cover
Reid, Donald, "The Night of the Proletarians: Deconstruction and History." Radical History Review 28-30 (1984), 445-463.: Review of Jacques Ranciere, La nuit des proletaires: Archives du reve ouvrier
Revel, Jacques, and Lynn Hunt, Eds. Histories: French Constructions of the Past. New York: The New Press, 1995. Postwar French Thought Series.: "The New Press's four-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the intellectual transformations that took place in post-World War II France. Histories, the first volume in the Series, focuses on the way French thinkers reshaped the way we see and understand our past.

"The volume sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods, and interdisciplinary studies. It contains selections from major foundations texts (Braudel, Labrousse, Duby, Chartier, and Wachtel) as well as works by Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Bourdieu, and Veyne, many of them translated here for the first time." from the back cover
Riley, Denise. "Am I That Name?": Feminism and the Category of Women in History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.: "Riley examines shifting historical constructions of the category 'women' in relation to other categories used to define personhood." from the University of Minnesota Press on-line catalog
Roberts, David D. Nothing but History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.: Contents: 1. Postmetaphysical History. 2. Tentative Steps into History: From Vico to Dilthey. 3. The Reduction to History. 4. Nietzsche: The Innocence of Becoming. 5. Croce: History as Thought and Action. 6. Heidegger: Historicism, Disengagement, Holiness. 7. Gadamerian Hermeneutics: Belonging to a Growing Tradition. 8. Deconstruction: The Uses and Limits of Perversity. 9. Pragmatism, Histocisim, Aestheticism. 10. Past, Process, and Contest in Contemporary Historiography.11. Responding to the World as Historical.
Roberts, David D., Review of Theories and Narratives, Alex Callinicos. American Historical Review 102:1 (February 1997), 92-93.
Roberts, David D., Postmodern Continuities: Difference, Dominance and the Question of Historiographical Renewal." History and Theory 37:3 (October 1998), 388-400.: Review of Cultural History and Postmodernity, by Mark Poster.
Roberts, Geoffrey, "Postmodernism versus the Standpoint of Action." History and Theory 36:2 (May 1997), 249-260.: Review essay on On "What is History", by Keith Jenkins.
Roth, Michael S. Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.: "Knowing and History charts the development of Hegelian philosophy of history in France from the 1930s through the postwar period, and critically assesses its significance for an understanding of our cultural present and of the possibilities for making menaing out of change over time.

"Michael Roth provides detailed analyses of the works of three of the most important Hegelian thinkers: Jean Hyppolite, Alexandre Kojeve, and Eric Weil. These philosophers turned to history as the source of truths and criteria of judgement: they forged connections between history and knowing as a means of confronting key modern philosophical problems, and engaging their contemporary political concerns. By the 1950s, however, they had withdrawn from the historical in search of a more secure, hopeful subject for reflection.

"According to Roth, the French Hegelians' work illuminates the power and limitations of the philosophical apprach to history. Further, he finds in the development of their philosophies one of the crucial transformations in modern intellectual history: the shift from a concern with questions of significance to a concern with questions of use or function. He seeks to explicate the contemporary retreat from questions of significance by situating our cultural moment in relation to its intellectual antecedents. In an Afterword devoted to French post-strucutrualism, the author discusses Hegel's replacement by Nietzsche as the locus of philosophical authority in France in the 1960s, and examines how this shift informs the work of Michel Foucault. Roth argues that the use of Nietzsche against a dialectical philosophy of history contributes to a serious disjunction between philosophical reflection and political judgement." from the dust jacket
Roth, Michael S. The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.: "InThe Ironist's Cage Michael S. Roth explores central questions in the theory of history and contemporary cultural criticism. Roth argues that recent critics of contemporary cultural and society have themselves trapped in an 'ironist's cage,' a state in which writers privilege a sophisticated ironic form as a substitute for their inablility to connect to a project of political action.

"Inquiring into why we are interested in having a connection with the past, why we try to recollect it, and what desires we hope to satisfy through this recollection, The Ironist's sheds new light on memory, mouring, and the burdens of history at the level of personal and collective consciousness.

"Exploring the connections between philosophy, politics, and history, this elegant series of essays assesses the shifting status of historical consciousness within the discipline of history and extends our understanding of the function of the historical in the humanities today." from the back cover

Includes: "Unsettling the Past: Objectivity, Irony, and History"; "Narrative as Enclosure: The Contextual Histories of H. Stuart Hughes"; "Performing History: Modernist Contextualism in Carl E. Schorske's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna"; "Foucault on Discourse and History: A Style of Delegitimation"; "Natural Right and the End of History: Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve"; "Thin Description: Richard Rorty's Use of History"; "Cultural Criticism and Poltical Theory: Hayden White's Rhetorics of History" "The Ironist's Cage"; "The Nostalgic Nest at the End of History"; "Tradition, Memory, and History: On Edward Shils and Yosef Yershalmi"; "Freud's Use and Abuse of History"; "You Must Remember This: History, memory, and Trama in Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Roth, Michael S., Review of Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge, by Georg G. Iggers." American Historical Review (October 1998), 1221
Rowe, John Carlos, "Structuralism or Post-Structuralism: The Problem of 'The Discourse of History,'" Humanities in Society 2:1 (Winter 1979), 17-23.
Rusen, J., "Historical Enlightenment in the Light of Postmodernism: History in the Age of the 'New Unintelligibility.'" History and Memory 1 (1989), 109-129.
Sax, Benjamin C., "The Prelude to the Philosophy of the Future: The Art of Reading and the Genealogical Method in Nietzsche." History of European Ideas 1:3 (1992), 399-417.
Schottler, P., "Historians and Discourse Analysis." History Workshop Journal 27 (1989), 37-65.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Statistical Representations of Work: The Politics of the Chamber of Commerce's Statistique de l'industrie a Paris, 1847-1848." In Work in France Cornell University Press, 1986. pp. 335-363.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Agendas for Radical History: Comment." Radical History Review 36 (September 1986), 42-45.: Comment on presentations by Perry Anderson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawn and E. P. Thompson on the topic of "The Agenda for Radical History" at the New School for Social Research, New York, 20 October 1985.
Scott, Joan Wallach, Review of The Foul and the Fragrant, Alain Corbin. New York Times Book Review 91 (2 November 1986), 11-12.
Scott, Joan W., "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." American Historical Review 91:5 (December 1986), 1053-1075.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "'L'ouviere! mot impie, sordide ...': Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860." In The Historical Meanings of Work Cambridge University Press, 1987. pp. 119-142.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "New Documents on the Lives of French Women: The Journal of Caroline B., 1864-1868." Signs 12 (Spring 1987), 568-572.
Scott, Joan W., "On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History." International Labor and Working-Class History 31 (Spring 1987), 1-13.
Scott, Joan W., "A Reply to Criticism." International Labor and Working-Class History 32 (Fall 1987), 39-45.
Scott, Joan W., "History and Difference." Daedalus 116:4 (Fall 1987), 93-118.
Scott, Joan Wallach, Review of The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Nancy F. Cott. Ms 16 (October 1987), 80.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Gender and Culture series.: Includes: "Women's History"; "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis": "On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History"; "Women in The Making of the English Working Class" "Work Identites for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848"; "A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie a Paris, 1847-1848"; "'L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide ...': Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860"; "The Sears Case"; "American Women Historians, 1884-1984."

The revised edition (1999) includes a new preface and additional chapter, "Some More Reflectons on Gender and Politics."
Scott, Joan, "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism." Feminist Studies 14:1 (Spring 1988), 33-50.
Scott, Joan Wallach, Review of Tocqueville, Andre Jardin. New York Times Book Review 94 (19 February 1989), 12.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story." American Historical Review 94:3 (June 1989), 680-692.
Scott, Joan W., "French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man': Olympe de Gouges's Declarations." History Workshop Journal 28 (Autumn 1989), 1-21.: Initially prepared for a conference on 'Women in the French Revolution', held at the University of California, Los Angeles, 20-21 October 1989.
Scott, Joan W., " ." In Women in the French Revolution. Sara Melzer and Leslie Rabine, Eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.: A different version of "French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man': Olympe de Gouges's Declarations."
Scott, Joan W., "A Reply to the differences Questions." difference 2:3 (1990), 82-88.
Scott, Joan W., Review of Linda Gordon, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence. Signs 15:4 (Summer 1990), 848-852.
Scott, Joan W., "Response to Gordon." Signs 15:4 (Summer 1990), 859-860.: Response to Linda Gordon's review of Scott's Gender and the Politics of History in Signs.
Scott, Joan W., "Stolen History of American Minorities." Act Rech S 90 (1991), L7-L8.: In French.
Scott, Joan W., "Comment." differences 3:3 (1991), 171-175.: Comment on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Feminism in Decolonization," presented at the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, in March 1991.
Scott, Joan W., "The Evidence of Experience." Critical Inquiry 17:4 (Summer 1991), 773-797.: See also: Thomas C. Holt, "Experience and teh Politics of Intellectual Inquiry." Reprinted in James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian, Eds., Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 363-387.
Scott, Joan W., "A Rejoinder to Thomas C. Holt." Critical Inquiry: See also: Thomas C. Holt, "Experience and teh Politics of Intellectual Inquiry." Reprinted in James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian, Eds., Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 397-400.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Liberal Historians: A Unitary Vision." Chronicle of Higher Education 38 (11 September 1991), B1-B2.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake?" Change 23:6 (November/December 1991), 30-43.: Keynote address at the Mellon Fellows' Conference on Scholarship and Society, Bryn Mawr College, 15 June 1991. Reprinted in Radical History Review 54 (Fall 1992), 59-79.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "'A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer': Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women." In Rebel Daughters Oxford University Press, 1992. pp. 102-120.
Scott, Joan, "Women's History." In New Perspectives on Historical Writing Peter Burke, Ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. pp. 42-66.
Scott, Joan W., Review of C. Faure, Democracy Without Women: Feminism and the Rise of Liberal Individualism in France. American Journal Sociology 97:4 (1992), 1156-1157.
Scott, Joan W., Review of M. Sonenscher, Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the 18th-Century French Trades. Social History 17:1 (1992), 122-124.
Scott, Joan W., "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity." October 61 (Summer 1992), 12-19, 33-41.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "The New University: Beyond Poltical Correctness." AHA Perpectives 30:7 (1992), 14
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Diversity of Opinion." Change 24 (May/June 1992), 6-7.: Response to a letter by Joseph A. Shea, Jr. critiquing her article "The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake?"
Scott, Joan Wallach, Review of Debating P.C.. Academe 78 (November/December 1992), 66-68.
Scott, Joan W., "The Tip of the Volcano." Comparative Studies in Society and History 35:2 (1993), 438-443.
Scott, Joan W., Review of R. A. Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. American Historical Review 99:4 (1994), 1329-1330.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Rewriting the History of Feminism." Western Humanities Review 48:3 (Fall 1994), 238-251.
Scott, Joan W., Review of Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History. History and Theory 34:4 (1995), 329-334.
Scott, Joan W., "Universalism and the History of Feminism." differences 7:1 (Spring 1995), 1-14.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice." Academe 81:4 (July/August 1995), 44-48.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.: "When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox -- the need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics -- was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this new book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual differences.

Focusing on four feminist activists -- Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen during the French Revolution; Jeanne Deroin, a utopian socialist and candidate for legislative office in 1848; Hubertine Auclert, the suffragist of the Third Republic; and Madeleine Pelletier, a psychiatrist in the early twentieth century, who argued that women must 'virilize' themselves in order to gain equality -- Scott charts the repetitions and variations in feminist history. Again and again, feminists tried to prove that they were individuals, according to the standards of individuality of their day. Again and again, they confronted the assumption that individuals were men. But when sexual difference was taken to be a fundamental difference, when only men were regarded as individuals and thus as citizens, how could women also be citizens? The imaginative and courageous answers feminists offered to these questions are the subject of this engaging book. from the dust jacket

See also review by Biancamaria Fontana.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Defending the Tradition of Shared Governance." Chronicle of Higher Education 42 (9 August 1996), B1-B3.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "After History?" Common Knowledge 5:3 (Winter 1996), 9-26.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Comment on Hawkesworth's 'Confounding Gender.'" Signs 22:3 (Spring 1997), 697
Scott, Joan Wallach, Review of The Prospect Before Her: Vol. 1, 1500-1800, Olwen Hufton. Journal of Family History 22 (April 1997), 229-230.
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Comment on 'Women's History and the National History Standards.'" Journal of Women's History 9:3 (Fall 1997), 172-
Scott, Joan Wallach, "'La Querelle des Femmes' in the Late Twentieth Century." New Left Review 226 (November 1997), 3-
Scott, Joan Wallach, "Border Patrol." French Historical Studies 21:3 (Summer 1998), 383-
Sewell, Jr., William H., Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. History and Theory 29:1 (February 1990), 71-82.
Shapiro, Ann-Louise, "Whose (Which) History Is It Anyway?" History and Theory 36:4 (December 1997), 1-3.: An introduction to History and Theory Theme Issue 36 "Producing the Past: Making Histories Inside and Outside the Academy."
Sheeran, George, and Yanina Sheeran, "Discourses in Local History." Rethinking History 2:1 (Spring 1998), 65-85.: "Abstract: This paper begins witha brief historiographical account of the main developments in British local history over the past helf-century, including the Leicester School, community history and popular interest. As well as examining the epistemological arguments which have occupied local historians, we uncover their ideological roots, and question the naive empiricist orientation of much local history. We then go on to suggest that debate about positivist, relativist and realist appraches in mainstream history contains important theoretical issues for local history, as yet unaddressed. We conclude that it is time for academic local historians to become far more reflexive and aware of their situatedness in thinking about the nature of their historical enquiry."
Shiner, Larry, Review of Dominick LaCapra, Rethinking Intellectual History. Clio 14:1 (Fall 1984), 102-104.
Shirvani, Hamid, "Postmodernism: Decentering, Simulacrum, and Parody." American Quarterly 46:2 (June 1994), 290-296.: Review of Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Culturalism, and Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction.
Shumway, David R. Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. American Culture series.: "David R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study -- the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions of American literature by examining the discipline's practices and techniques, discourses and structures, paradigms and unstated assumptions.

"This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in later phases, including sexism, racism, and class bias. Singular in its treatment of American literary study as a discipline rather than as criticism and in its insistence on the cultural and political work carried on by this discipline. Creating American Civilization will engage literary theorists and historians as well as individuals with an interest in American literature." from the back cover
Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.: "In this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in the nineteenth century--a type of history condemned as trivial by 'scientific' male historians. She demonstrates the degree to which the profession defined itself in opposition to amateurism, femininity, and alternative ways of writing history. The male historians of the archive and the seminar claimed to be searching for 'genderless universal truth,' which in reality prioritized men's history over women's, white history over nonwhite, andthe political history of Western governments over any other. Meanwhile, women amateurs wrote vivid histories of queens and accomplished women, of manners and mores, and of everyday life.

"Following the profession up to 1940, The Gender of History traces the emergence of a renewed interest in social and cultural history which had been demeaned in the nineteenth century, when professional historians viewed themselves as supermen who could see through the surface of events to invisible meanings and motives. But Smith doesn't let late twentieth-century historians off the hook. She demonstrates how, even today, the practice of history is propelled by fantasies of power in which researchers imagine themselves as heroic rescuers of the inarticulate lower classes. The professionals' legacy is still with us, as Smith's extraordinary work proves." from the Harvard University Press on-line catalog

To order the hardcover edition of The Gender of History, go to:
Smith, Jay M., "No More Language Games: Words, Beliefs, and the Political Culture of Early Modern France." American Historical Review 102:5 (December 1997), 1413-1440.: "Jay M. Smith critiques recent work on the language of political culture. Using studies of early modern France as his example, he expresses sympathy with one of the main purposes of this work: demonstrating that human agency inevitably use language to construe and construct social reality. However, he argues that the motivations that lie behind such political and linguistic agency have not received the explicit and extended theoretical attention they deserve. Specifically, the tendency to describe and interpret language as a strategic instrument, a tendency exemplified by the use of the 'language game' theory analogy, has had the effect of shielding from historians the essential role of beliefs and values in the production of political language. In the second part of the essay, Smith illustrates the need to place values in the foreground of linguistic analysis by examinging the changing meaning of the French word credit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By making 'belief' the chief object of cultural and linguistic analysis, Smith concludes, historians of political culture will be better able to show individuals and groups actively mediating between 'material' and linguistic' structures, and, more important, will also be in a better position to explain how and why people initiate and propel that process of mediation." editor's note, AHR, 102:5 (December 1997), xv.
Smith, Jay M., Letter. American Historical Review 103:3 (June 1998), 1044-1045.: Smith's response to a review of his book The Culture of Merit: Nobillity, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789 by Sharon Kettering. See also: Kettering's response to this letter.
Sonenscher, M., Review of La Nuit de Proletaires: archives du Reve ouvier, by Jacques Ranciere. Social History 9 (January 1984), 113-116.
Southgate, Beverley. History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.: "History: What and Why? is an introductory survey of the nature and purpose of history. Beverley Southgate argues that the traditional model of history as a re-discovery of the past 'as it was' has now been superseded. It has been successfully challenged, he argues, by developments in other disciplines, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, together with the work of Marxist, feminist, and post-colonial historians. This book combines a historical perspective with a clear guide to current debates about the nature of history, proposing a positive role for historical study in the postmodern era."
Spiegel, Gabrielle M., "History, Historicism, and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages." Speculum 65:1 (January 1990), 59-86.
Spiegel, Gabrielle, "History and Post-Modernism IV." Past and Present 135 (May 1992), 194-208.
Spitzer, Alan B. Historical Truth and Liews about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.: "Historians have long struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Intellectual historian Alan Spitzer focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four politically charged debates about the past: the response to the report of the commission chaired by John Dewey that evaluated the accusations made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Purge Trials of 1937, the Dreyfus Affair in turn-of-the-century France, the allegations about the extent and meaning of literary critic Paul de Man's complicity withe the German occupation forces in wartime Belgium, and Ronald Reagan's justification for his 1987 visit to a German cemetary where Nazi SS officers are buried.

Spitzer's arguent centers on the ways in which the authority of 'objective' criteria for historical judgement are introduced in politicized disputes about the past, regardless of the theoretical qualification or repudiation of such standards. The higher the political stakes, the more likely the antagonists are to appeal to generally warrented standards of relevant evidence and rational inference. Spitzer's commentary speaks to issues that transcend the specific content of the four cases he discusses." from the back cover
Stanford, Michael. A Companion to the Study of History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994: Contents: Introduction. 1. History as Unity. 2. History as Action. 3. History as Outlook. 4. History as Discourse. 5. History as Knowledge. 6. History as Relic. 7. History as Event. 8. History as Sequence. 9. History as Theory. 10. History Transcended: Metaphysics, Marx, Myth and Meaning.
Stanford, Michael. An Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.: "Beginning with an energetic and lucid discussion covering traditional issues such as epistemology and metaphysics, the author continues to explore in more detail the current debates surrounding philosophical issues of concern to both history and the social sciences. Tackling a wide range of topics such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative, gender, deconstruction and postmodernism, the book affords students in philosophy and social science departments a deeper and wider perspective on the philosophical problems within their areas of study." from the back cover

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Stansell, Christine, "A Response to Joan Scott." International Labor and Working-Class History 31 (Spring 1987), 24-29.
Steinberg, Marc W., "Culturally Speaking: Finding a Commons between Post-structuralism and the Thompsonian Perspective." Social History 21:2 (May 1996), 193-214.
Steinberg, Michael P., "Culural History and Cultural Studies" in Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies Cary Nelson and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Eds. New York & London:Routledge, 1996. pp. 103-129.
Stephens, Julie Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.: "The 'sixties' often functions like a shorthand in contemporary debate, denoting a time of protest and rebellion, and a set of easily identifiable cultural motifs. It was a time when the boundaries between the political and the aesthetic were deliberately blurred. According to some critics, it was also the time when the possibility for grand social transformation died.

"Stephens questions the frameworks which inform commonplace understandings of the period, arguing that the most distinctive forms of sixties protest are often marginalized or excluded from view. She looks at the problematic contemporary and retrospective accounts of sixties radicalism and traces the modernist and postmodernist implulses that can be discerned in the anti-disciplinary protest of the time. Her lively and often rare sources range from travel literature to autobiographies; from political pamphlets, posters and manifestos to novels and scholarly commentaries.

"In a provocative contribution to contemporary social theory and cultural studies, this book challenges the connection made between what is seen as the failure of sixties radicalism and the idea that revolutionary projects are no longer possible in the post-sixties era. It develops a new theoretical framework for conceptualizing the relationship between the sixties and later political and theoretical developments." from the back cover of the paperback

Contents: Introduction: Resurrecting the Death of the Sixties. 1. Paradigms of Sixties Radicalism. 2. The Language of an Anti-Disciplinary Politics. 3. Consuming India. 4. Co-opting Co-optation. 5. Aesthetic Radicalism. 6. Genealogies.
Sterns, Peter N. "Social History Update: Encountering Post-modernism." Journal of Social History (1990)
Stewart, Mary Lynn, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Canadian Journal of History 24 (December 1989), 425-426.
Stone, Lawrence, "Notes: History and Post-Modernism." Past and Present 131 (May 1991), 217-218.
Stone, Lawrence, "History and Post-Modernism III" Past and Present 135 (May 1992)189-194.
Tachibana, Reiko Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.: "The wartime and postwar culutural histories of Germany and Japan show similar experiences of defeat, occupation, and then the reconstruction of powerful societies. Little previous research has examined the literary works that reflect these contacts and parallelisms. For the first time, this book offers an extensive comparative study of German and Japanese narratives that serve as a form of 'counter-memory' in Foucault's phrase, for the two cultures. Rather than attempting to present objective or comprehensive views of history, these narratives draw upon personal memories to offer subjective, selective, and individualistic reports. They provide an alternative (or 'counter-memory') to more official versions of World War II and its aftermath. Major writers such as Mishima Yukio, Ibuse Masuji, Oba Minako, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, and the Nobel Prize winners Oe Kenaburo and Heinrich Boll are set in the context of lesser-known writers, including a nine-year-old child, a medical doctor, a woman who served as a journalist, and a former prisoner, to provide a broad cultural basis for understanding responses to the war from within the two societies." from the back cover
Terdiman, Richard, "Deconstructing Memory: On Representing the Pst and Theorizing Culture in France Since the Revolution." diacritics 15:4 (Winter 1984), 13-36.
Toews, John E., "Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn: The Autonomy of Meaning and the Irreducibility of Experience." American Historical Review 92:4 (October 1987), 879-907.
Toews, John E., "Perspectives on 'The Old History and the New': A Comment." American Historical Review 94:3 (June 1989), 693-698.
Toews, John E., "A New Philosophy of History? Reflections on Postmodern Historicizing." History and Theory 36:2 (May 1997), 235-248.
Toews, John E., Review of Objectivity is Not Neutrality, by Thomas L. Haskell. History and Theory (October 1999)
Topolski, Jerzy, "The Concept Theory in Historical Research: Theory versus Myth." Storia della Storiografia 13 (1988), 67-79.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Von der Dunk, H. W., "Narrativity and the Reality of the Past: Some Reflections." Storia della Storiografia 24 (1993)
Wagar, W. Warren, Review of Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History, Peter Gran American Historical Review 102:3 (June 1997), 784-785.
Watts, Steven, "The Idiocy of American Studies: Poststructuralism, Language, and Politics in the Age of Self-Fulfillment." American Quarterly 43 (December 1991), 625-660.
Weber, Eugen, "Return to Gender." New Republic 199 (17 October 1988), 43-46.: Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History.
Weeks, Jeffrey, "Sex and the State: Their Laws, Our Lives." History Workshop 21 (Spring 1986), 206-209.
Weinstein, Fred. History and Theory After the Fall: An Essay on Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.: "In this ambitious work, Fred Weinstein confronts the obstacles that have increasingly frustrated our attempts to explain social and historical reality. Traditionally, we have relied on history and social theory to describe the ways people understand the world they live in. But the ordering explanations we have always used -- derived from the classical social theories originally forged by Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Durkheim, Freud -- have collapsed.

In the wake of this collapse or 'fall,' the rival claims of fiction, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and history have created the dilemma of radical relativism, the prospect of multiple interpretations of any complex historical event. The basic strategy of social theory and the social sciences -- the search for underlying unities -- proves so inherently contradictory and has provided so little in the way of reliable knowledge of social and historical relationships that to many critics it seems no longer worth pursing.

"Weinstein enters the debate by rejecting any search for underlying structural unities, dynamic or social, through which historians have attempted to find continuity with the past. He looks instead to ideological processes, to the construction of sucessive and changing versions of reality that mediate between the power of fantsasy on the one side the the power of the social world on the other. He argues further that the need to use ideological constructs in this way accounts for the hetereogeneous and changing content of social movements and for the persistent need people have always had for authoritative leaders, even in democatized societies. He suggests that people have historically been able to take a step away from leaders only by substituting the possession of objects such as property or money. This book is a breakthrough in poststructuralist theory that is sure to stimulate considerable discussion, especially about the shape of the social sciences and the future of historical interpretation." from the book cover
Williams, Brooke, "What Has History to do with Semiotic?" Semiotica 54:3-4 (1985), 267-333.
Windschuttle, Keith The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past Free Press: "For centuries, the study of history has essentially been a search for the truth, for 'what really happened.' Today, however, the discipline is under potentially lethal attack from an array of literary and social theorists who deny that truth and knowledge about the past are possible, and who argue that history can only be perceived through the distorted lens of our own cultural interests and concerns.

"The Killing of History goes straight to the frontlines of the debate, using case studies to pit the new theories against what we know to be true. Chapters reveal how trendy academics have garbled the European discovery of America, the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, among other topics. What emerges is an important lesson in the separation of fact from fiction that will do much to rescue history as we know it--and teach it." from the Free Press catalog
Winichakul, Thonochai, Review of Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot. American Historical Review 102:2 (April 1997), 426-427.
Wyschogrod, Edith. An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Religion and Postmodernism.: "What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyperreality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written?

"Edith Wyschogrod animates such questions through the passionate figure of the 'heterological historian.' Realizing the philosophical impossibility of recovering 'what really happened,' this historian nevertheless acknowledges a moral imperative to speak for those who have been rendered voiceless, to give countenance to those who have become faceless, and to give hope to the desolate. Wyschogrod also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as photographs, film, and the Internet, which bring with them new constraints on the writing of history and which mandate a new vision of community. Drawing on the works of continental philosophers, historiographers, congnitive scientists, and filmmakers, Wyschogrod creates a powerful new framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian." from the back cover of the paperback edition

Contents: 1. Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics. 2. Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant. 3. The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality. 4.Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance. 5. Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler. 6. Re-membering the Past. 7. The Gift of Community.

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Young, James E., "Toward a Received History of the Holocaust." History and Theory 36:4 (December 1997), 21-63.: "Abstract: In this article I examine both the problem of so-called postmodern history as it relates to the Holocaust and suggest the ways that Saul Friedlander's recent work successfully mediates between the somewhat overly polemicized positions of 'relativist' and 'positivist' history. In this context, I find that in his search for an adequately self-reflexive historical narrative for the Holocaust, Hayden White's proposed notion of 'middle-voicedness' may recommend itself more as a process for eyewitness writers than as a style for historians after the fact. From here, I look at the ways Saul Friedlander's reflections on the historian's voice not only mediate between White's notions of the ironic mode and middle-voicedness, but also suggest the basis for an uncanny history in its own right: an anti-redemptory narrative that works through, yet never actually bridges, the gap between a survivor's 'deep memory' and historical narrative.

"For finally, it may be the very idea of 'deep memory' and its incompatibility with narrative that constitutes one of the central challenges to Holocaust historiography. What can be done with what Friedlander has termed 'deep memory' of the survivor, that which remains essentially unrepresentable? Is it possible to write a history that includes some oblique reference to such deep memory, but which leaves it essentially intact, untouched and thereby deep? In this section, I suggest, after Patrick Hutton, that 'What is at issue here is not how history can recover memory, but , rather, what memory will bequeath to history.' That is, what shall we do with the living memory of survivors? How will it enter (or not enter) the historical record? Or to paraphrase Hutton again, 'How will the past be remembered as it passes from living memory to history?' Will it always be regarded as so overly laden with pathos as to make it unreliable as documentary evidence? Or is there a place for the understanding of the witness, as subjective and skewed as it may be, for our larger historical understanding of events?

"In partial answer to these questions, I attempt to extend Friedlander's insights toward a narrow kind of history-telling I call 'received history'--a double-stranded narrative that tells a survivor-historian's story and my own relationship to it. Such a narrative would chart not just he life of the survivor-historian itself but also the measurable effect of the tellings--both his telling and mine--on my own life's story. Together, they would compose a received history of the Holocaust and its afterlife in the author's mind--my 'vicarious past.'"
Young, Robert. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.: "What happens to 'History' in postmodernism? Is History a western myth? We must, many now argue, 'get back' to history. But which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory -- particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism?

"Robert Young's investigation of 'the history of History' -- from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault -- calls into question the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single 'World History', in which, as he shows, the 'Third World' appears as an unassimilable excess, surplus to the narrative of the West.

"Young goes on to consider recent questionings of the limits of Western knowledge. He argues that the efforts of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhaba to formulate non-historicist ways of thinking and writing history are part of a larger project of a decolonization of History and a deconstruction of 'the West'." from the back cover
Zagorin, Perez, "Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations." History and Theory 29:3 (1990), 263-274.
Zammito, John H., "Are We Being Theoretical Yet?: The New Historicism, the New Philosophy of History and 'Practicing Historians.'" Journal of Modern History 65 (December 1993), 783-814.: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Abelove, Henry, "The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History." Radical History Review , 62 (Spring 1995), 44-57.

Abelson, Elaine, David Abraham, and Marjorie Murphy, "Interview with Joan Scott." Radical History Review , 45 (August 1989), 40-59.

Allen, Barry, "The Soul of Knowledge." History and Theory , 86:1 (February 1997), 63-82.

Review of Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.

Allen, Barry, "What It All Means." Science July 1999

Review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?

Appleby, Joyce, "One Good Turn Deserves Another: Moving Beyond the Linguistic; A Response to David Harlan." American Historical Review , 94:5 (December 1989), 1326-1332

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

"A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters with post-modernism and multiculturalism." David A. Hollinger, New York Times Book Review.

Arens, Katherine, "Discourse Analysis as Critical Historiography: A semanalyse of Mystic Speech." Rethinking History , 2:1 (Spring 1998), 23-50.

Armour, Leslie, Review of The Social Construction of What?, by Ian Hacking. Library Journal (15 August 1999).

Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Ausmus, Harry J., Review of Nothing but History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics, David D. Roberts American Historical Review , 102:3 (June 1997), 776-777.

Bann, Stephen, "Mourning, Identity, and the Uses of History." History and Theory , 37:1 (February 1998), 94-101.

Review of The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History, by Michael S. Roth.

Barkin, Kenneth, "Bismarck in a Postmodern World." German Studies Review , 18:2 (May 1995), 241-252.

Bartelson, Jens A Genealogy of Sovereignty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Cambridge Studies in International Relations, no. 39.

Berlanstein, Lenard, R., Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Comparative Studies in Society and History , 33 (April 1991), 426-440.

Berni, Christine, "Taking an Axe to History: The Historical Lizzie Borden and the Postmodern Historiography of Angela Carter." Clio , 27:1 (Fall 1997), 29-

Bevir, Mark, "Objectivity in History" History and Theory , 33:3 (1995), 329-344.

Blake, Casey, Review of The Degredation of American History, by David Harlan. Journal of American History 86:1 (June 1999)

Bonnell, Victoria E., and Lynn Hunt, Eds. Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 34.

Boxer, Marilyn J., Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Journal of Social History , 22 (Summer 1989), 788-790.

Bravmann, Scott. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference. Cambridge University Press.

Brennan, Teresa History After Lacan London and New York, Routledge, 1993. Opening Out: Feminism for Today.

Bridenthal, Renate, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, Joan Wallach Scott. Science and Society , 54 (Summer 1990), 226-228.

Brown, Richard Harvey. Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Bunzl, Martin. Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Philosophical Issues in Science.

Burnham, Patricia M., and Lucretia Hoover Giese, "'Constructions' and Postmodern Cultural Studies." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28:4 (Spring 1998), 633-

Callinicos, Alex. Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History Cambridge: Polity Press, and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Post-Contemporary Interventions.

Caplan, Jane, Review of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott. Nation , 248 (9-16 January 1989), 62-65.

Caplan, Jane, "Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and Deconstruction: Notes for Historians." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 260-278.

Carr, David R., Review of A Genealogy of Sovereignty, by Jens Bartelson American Historical Review , 102:2 (April 1997), 422-423.

Carrier, David, Review of Prophets of Extremity, by Allan Megill. British Journal of Aesthetics , 26 (Summer 1986), 288-289.

Carroll, David, "On Tropology: The Forms of History." diacritics , (Fall 1976), 58-64.

Response to Frederic Jameson's review of Hayden White, Metahistory.

Chapman, Herrick, Review of The Nights of Labor, by Jacques Ranciere. Journal of Modern History , 65 (September 1993), 627-630.

Childers, Joseph, Review of History and Criticism, by Dominick LaCapra. Critical Texts , 3:3 (Spring/Summer 1986), 22-25.

Childers, Thomas, "Political Sociology and the 'Linguistic Turn'." Central European History , 22:3-4 (September/December 1989), 381-393.

Cmeil, Kenneth, Review of The Degradation of American History, by David Harlan. Intellectual History Newsletter 20 (1998).

Cohen, Paul A., Review of History and Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding, by Robert Eric Frykenberg. American Historical Review , 103:2 (April 1998), 481-482.

Cohen, Sande, "Desire for History: Historiography, Scholarship, and the Vicarious." Storia della storiografia 30 (1996), 57-

On Carlo Ginzburg.

Cohen, Sande, "Science Studies and Language Suppression -- A Critique of Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28:2 (June 1997), 339-

Cohen, Sande Passive Nihilism: Cultural Historiography and the Rhetorics of Scholarship. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Collins, Jacqueline, Review of Re-thinking History, by Keith Jenkins. History Teacher , 27 (August 1994), 504-506.

Cornell, Saul, "Splitting the Difference: Textualism, Contextualism, and Post-modern History." American Studies , 36 (Spring 1995), 57-80.

Crawford, T. Hugh. Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, Science and Culture series, vol. 1.

Crosby, Christina. The Ends of History: Victorians and 'The Woman Question.' New York and London: Routledge, 1991.

Crosby, Christina, Review of Teresa Brennan, History after Lacan. History and Theory , (May 1996)

Daniel Stephen H., "Paramodern Strategies of Philosopical Historiography." Epoche 1 (1993), 42-61.

Daniel Stephen H., "Postmodernity, Poststructuralism, and the Historiography of Modern Philosophy." International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (1995), 255-67.

Danto, Arthur, Review of Prophets of Extremity, Allan Megill. New York Times Book Review , 90 (15 September 1985), 26.

Davis, Lennard J. Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel. 1983; reprint, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

De Landa, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Swerve (Zone), 1997.

Dintenfass, Michael, "Truth's Other: Ethics, the History of the Holocaust, and Historiographical Theory after the Linguistic Turn." History and Theory (February 2000)

Doak, Kevin M., What Is a Nation and Who Belongs? National Narratives and the Ethnic Imagination in Twentieth-Century Japan." American Historical Review , 102:2 (April 1997), 282-309.

Domanska, Ewa Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1998

Domanska, Ewa, "Universal History and Postmodernism." Storia della Storiografia 35 (1999)

Donzelot, Jacques. The Policing of Families. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.

Donzelot, Jacques, "The Poverty of Political Culture." Ideology and Consciousness , 5 (Spring 1979), 73-86.

See also: "Introduction to Donzelot," Ideology and Consciousness 5 (Spring 1979), 71-72.

Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Duara, Prasenjit, "Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty: China, 1900-1945." American Historical Review , 102:4 (October 1997), 1030-1051.

Duara, Prasenjit, "The Regime of Authenticity: Timelessness, Gender, and National History in Modern China." History and Theory , 37:3 (October 1998), 287-308.

Duara, Prasenjit, Review of Cultural History and Postmodernity, by Mark Poster, and The Postmodern History Reader, Keith Jenkins, Ed. Journal of American History 86:2 (September 1999)

Dumm, Thomas L. Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Dutton, Michael R. Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to 'the People'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Easthope, Antony., "Romancing the Stone: History-Writing and Rhetoric." Social History , 18:2 (May 1993)

Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Engelstein, Laura, "Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia." American Historial Review , 98:2 (April 1993), 338-353.

Engelstein, Laura, "Reply." American Historical Review , 98:2 (April 1993), 376-381.

Escoffier, Jeffrey, Regina Kunsel, and Molly McGarry, "The Queer Issue: New Visions of America's Lesbian and Gay Past." Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995), 1-6.

Evans, Eric, Review of On "What is History?", Keith Jenkins. History Today , 47 (June 1997), 57.

Evans, Richard J. H., "Social History in the Postmodern Age." Storia della Storiagrafia , 18 (1990), 36-42.

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