HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Reader

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

  • Orientations, Inaugural Conference, International Society for Cultural History, Ghent University, August 28-31

2007:

2006:

  • The Historians’ 'Plupast': Embedded Images of the Past in Greek and Roman Historiography, Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Universität Freiburg, August 25–27

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Annual:

  • University of London: Institute of Historical Research: Research Seminar in Philosophy of History

COURSES

JOURNALS

 

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of History:

      • Dray, W., ed.  Perspectives on History.  Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, .  27-46.

      • Hunt, Lynn, ed.  The New Cultural History.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.

    • History and Theory:

      • Ankersmit, F. R., and Hans Kellner, eds.  A New Philosophy of History.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

      • Burns, Robert M., and Hugh Rayment-Pickard, eds.  Philosophies of History: from the Enlightenment to Postmodernity.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

      • Canary, Robert H., and Henry Kozicki, eds.  The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1978.

      • Dray, William H., ed.  Philosophical Analysis and History.  New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

      • Fay, Brian, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann, eds.  History and Theory: Contemporary Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

      • Gardiner, Patrick L., ed.  Philosophy of History.  Oxford: OUP, 1975.

      • Gardiner, Patrick L., ed.  Theories of History.  New York: Free Press, 1959. 

      • Jenkins, Keith, ed.  The Postmodern History Reader.  London: Routledge, 1997.

      • Neubauer, John, ed.  Cultural History after Foucault.  Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999.
      • Revel, Jacques, Ramona Naddaff, and Lynn Hunt, eds.  Histories: French Constructions of the Past.  Vol. I.  Postwar French Thought.  New York: New Press, 1998.

      • Roberts, Geoffrey, ed.  The History and Narrative Reader.  London: Routledge, 2001.

      • Stern, Fritz, ed.  The Varieties of History: from Voltaire to the Present.  New York: Meridian, 1956.  2nd Ed.  1973.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of History:

      • Atkinson, R. F.  Knowledge and Explanation in History: an Introduction to the Philosophy of History.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.

      • Bevir, Mark.  The Logic of the History of Ideas.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

      • Carr, E. H.  What is History?  London: Macmillan, 1962.

      • Dray, William H.  On History and Philosophers of History.  Leiden: Brill, 1989.
      • Dray, William H.  "Narrative versus Analysis in History."  Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (1985): 125-45.
      • Dray, William H.  Philosophy of History.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
      • Dray, William H.  Laws and Explanation in History.  Oxford: OUP, 1957.
        • "On the Nature and Role of Narrative in History."  The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  25-39.
        • "Narrative and Historical Realism."  The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  157-180.
      • Elton, Geoffrey.  The Practice of History.  London: Fontana, 1967.
      • Evans, Richard J.  In Defence of History.  New York: Norton, 1997.
      • Fischer, David H.  Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought.  Perennial, 1970.
      • Goldstein, Leon.  Historical Knowing.  Austin: U of Texas P, 1976.

      • Gorman, Jonathan.  Historical Judgement: the Limits of Historiographical Choice.  Chesham: Acumen, 2007.

      • Hempel, Carl Gustav.  "Function of General Laws in History."  Journal of Philosophy 39 (1942): 35-48.  Rpt. in Aspects of Scientific Explanation.  231-244. 

      • Himmelfarb, Gertrude.  The New History and the Old.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1987.

      • Hume, Robert.  Reconstructing Contexts: the Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.

      • Livingston, Paul M.  Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

      • Marwick, Arthur.  The Nature of History.  1970.  Rpt. as The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

      • McCullagh, C. Behan.  The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective.  London: Routledge, 2004.

      • McCullagh, C. Behan.  The Truth of History.  London: Routledge, 1998.

      • McCullagh, C. Behan.  "Metaphor and Truth in History."  Clio 23.1 (1993): .

      • McCullagh, C. Behan.  Justifying Historical Descriptions.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

      • Popper, Karl.  The Poverty of Historicism.  Boston: Beacon, 1957.
      • Tucker, Aviezer.  Our Knowledge of the Past: a Philosophy of Historiography.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
      • Walsh, William H.  An Introduction to Philosophy of History.  1951.

      • Zagorin, Perez.  “History, the Referent and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now.”  History and Theory 38 (1999): 1-24.

      • Zagorin, Perez.  "Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations."  History and Theory 29 (1990): 263-274 .

    • History and Theory:

      • Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob.  Telling the Truth About History.  New York: Norton, 1995.

      • Aron, Raymond.  Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire: Essai sur les limites de l'objectivité historique.  Paris: Gallimard, 1938.

        • Introduction to the Philosophy of History: an Essay on the Limits of Historical Objectivity.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1948.

      • Baucom, Ian.  Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History.  Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

      • Benda, Julien.  La Trahison des clercs.  1927.

        • The Treason of the Intellectuals.  New York: Norton, 1969.

      • Berkhofer, Robert F.  Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1997.

      • Biernacki, Richard.  "Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History."  Beyond the Cultural Turn.  Ed. Virginia E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1999.  62 – 92.

      • Bloch, Marc.  1949.

        • The Historian's Craft.  Trans. Peter Putnam.  New York: Vintage, 1953.

      • Cabrera, Miguel A.  Postsocial History: an Introduction.  Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2004.
      • Cabrera, Miguel A.  “On Language, Culture, and Social Action.”  History and Theory 40 (2001): 82-100.

      • Callinicos, Alex.  Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History.  Durham: Duke UP, 1995.
      • Carr, David.  "Getting the Story Straight: Narrative and Historical Knowledge."  The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  197-208.

      • Carr, David.  "Narrative and the Real World: an Argument for Continuity."  History and Theory 25.2 (1986): 117-131.

        • The History and Narrative Reader.  Ed. Geoffrey Roberts.  London: Routledge, 2001.  143-156.

        • History and Theory: Contemporary Readings.  Ed. Brian Fay, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  137-152.

      • Carr, David.  Time, Narrative and History.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

      • Chartier, Roger.  Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations.  Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

      • Elden, Stuart.  Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History.  London: Athlone, 2002.
      • Gardiner, Patrick L.  The Nature of Historical Explanation.  Oxford: OUP, 1993.
      • Gossman , Lionel.  Between History and Literature.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990.

      • Gossman , Lionel.  "History and Literature: Reproduction or Signification?"  The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding.  Ed. Robert H. Canary and Henry Kozicki.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1978.

      • Hexter, J. H.  "Historiography: the Rhetoric of History."  International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences 6.  Ed. D. L. Sills.  London: Macmillan, 1968.  368-394. 

      • Hexter, J. H.  "The Rhetoric of History."  History and Theory 6 (1967): 3-13. 

        • History and Theory: Contemporary Readings.  Ed. Brian Fay, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  59-68.

        • Doing History.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971.  15-76.

      • Jameson, Frederic.  "Marxism and Historicism."  New Literary History 11 (1979): 41-72.
      • Kellner, Hans.  Language and Historical Representation: Getting the Story Crooked.  Madison: U of Wisconsin, 1989.

      • Loewenberg, P. "Psychoanalytic Models of History: Freud and After."  Psychology and Historical Interpretation.  Ed. W. Runyan.  Oxford: OUP, 1980.

      • Lowith, Karl.  Meaning in History: the Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1957.

      • Mandelbaum, Maurice.  History, Man and Reason: a Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1971.

      • Major-Poetzel, Pamela.  Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture: Towards a New Science of History.  Brighton: Harvester, 1983.
      • Megill, Allan.  Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: a Contemporary Guide to Practice Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.

      • Megill, Allan.  "'‘Grand Narrative’' and the 'Discipline of History.'"  A New Philosophy of History.  Ed. Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.  151–173; 263–271.

      • Megill, Allan.  "Recounting the Past: 'Description,' Explanation and Narrative in Historiography."  American Historical Review 94 (1989): 627-653.

      • Nora, Pierre.  "Between Memory and History: les Lieux de Mémoire."  Representations 26 (1989): .

      • Noujain, Elie Georges.  "History as Genealogy: an Exploration of Foucault's Approach to History."  Contemporary French Philosophy.  Ed. A. Phillips Griffiths.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  157-174.
      • Orr, Linda.  "The Revenge of Literature: a History of History."  Studies in Historical Change.  Ed. Ralph Cohen.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1992.  84-108.

      • Partner, Nancy F.  "Making Up Lost Time: Writing on the Writing of History."  Speculum 61 (1986): 90-117.
      • Poster, Mark.  Foucault, Marxism and History.  Cambridge: Polity, 1984.
      • Ranke, Leopold von The Theory and Practice of History.  Ed. Georg G. Iggers and Konrad von Moltke.  Indianapolis: , 1971.Rée, Jonathan.  "The Vanity of Historicism."  New Literary History 22 (1991): 961-983.
      • Ricoeur, Paul.  Time and Narrative.  3 vols.  Trans. Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984, 1985, 1988.  (1983, 1984, 1985)
      • Schilb, John.  "The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History."  PRE/TEXT 8 (1986): 11-34.

      • Stannard, D.  Shrinking History: on Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory.  Oxford: OUP, 1980.
      • Stone, Lawrence.  "The Revival of Narrative."  Past and Present (1979): . 

      • Streuver, Nancy S.  "Historical Discourse."  Disciplines of Discourse.  Vol. 1 of Handbook of Discourse Analysis.  Ed. Teun A. van Dijk.  London: Academic, 191985.  249-271.
      • Streuver, Nancy S.  "The Study of Language and the Study of History."  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4 (1974): 401-415.
      • Vann, Richard.  "The Rhetoric of Social History."  Journal of Social History 10 (1975): 221-236.
      • Zerubavel, Eviatar.  Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of History:

      • Bentley, Michael, ed.  Companion to Historiography.  London: Routledge, 2002.

      • Besserman, Lawrence, ed.  The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives.  London: Routledge, 1996.

      • Burke, Peter, ed.  New Perspectives on Historical Writing.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.

      • Cohen, Ralph, ed.  Studies in Historical Change.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1992.
      • Cohen, Ralph, and Michael S. Roth, eds.  History and . . . : Histories within the Human Sciences.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1995.

      • Friedlander, Saul, ed.  Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the ‘Final Solution’.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.

      • Green, Anna, and Kathleen Troup, eds.  The Houses of History: a Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory.  New York: New York UP, 1999.
      • Macfie, Alan L., ed.  The Philosophy of History: a Collection of Talks from the IHR 2000-2005.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

      • Munslow, Alan, ed.  Routledge Companion to Historical Studies.  London: Routledge, 2000.

      • Rüsen, Jörn, ed.  Western Historical Thinking: an Intercultural Debate.  Oxford: Berghahn, 2002.

    • History and Theory:

      • Attridge, Derek, et al., ed.  Post-Structuralism and the Question of History.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  

      • Bonnell, Virginia E., and Lynn Hunt, eds.  Beyond the Cultural Turn.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1999. 

      • Domanska, Ewa, ed.  Encounters: Philosophy of History after PostmodernismCharlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1998.

      • Gallagher, Shaun, ed.  Hegel, History, and Interpretation.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
      • Hunt, Lynn, ed.  The New Cultural History.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.

      • Runyan, W., ed.  Psychology and Historical Interpretation.  Oxford: OUP, 1980.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of History:

    • History and Theory:

      • Carrard, Philippe.  Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.

      • Dosse, Francois.  New History in France: the Triumph of the Annales.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1994.

      • Roberts, David D.  Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

    • Sub-Topics:

      • Historicism:

        • Antoni, Carlo.  From History to Sociology: the Transition in German Historical Thinking.  Detroit, 1959.

        • Grumley, John G.  History and Totality: Radical Historicism from Hegel to Foucault.  1989.

        • Hamilton, Paul.  Historicism.  London: Routledge, 1996.
        • Hobart, Michael E.  "The Paradox of Historical Constructionism."  History and Theory 8.1 (1989): 43-58

        • Iggers, Georg G.  The German Conception of History: the National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1968.
        • Lee, Dwight E., and Robert N. Beck.  "The Meaning of 'Historicism.'”  American Historical Review 59 (1953-54): 568-577.
        • Meinecke, Friedrich.  Die Entstehung des Historismus.  Munich: , 1936.

          • Historicism: the Rise of a Classic Outlook.  Trans. J. E. Anderson.  New York: Herder and Herder, 1972.

        • Popper, Karl.  The Poverty of Historicism.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957.

      • Historiography:

        • Bentley, Michael.  Modern Historiography: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.

        • Breisach, Ernst.  On the Future of History: the Postmodernist Challenge and its Aftermath.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

        • Breisach, Ernst.  Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

        • Burns, Robert M.  "On Philosophising about History."  Philosophies of History: from Enlightenment to Postmodernity.  Ed. Burns and Hugh Rayment-Pickard.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  1-29.

        • Clark, Elizabeth.  History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

        • Fulbrook, Mary.  Historical Theory: Ways of Imagining the Past.  London: Routledge, 2002.

        • Gilderhus, Mark T.  History and Historians: a Historiographical Introduction.  Upper Saddle River, NJ.:  Prentice Hall, .
        • Hornblower, Simon.  Greek Historiography.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.
        • Iggers, Georg G.  Historiography in the Twentieth Century: from Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1997.
        • Krieger, Leonard.  Time's Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.

        • Lemon, M. C.  Philosophy of History: a Guide for Students.  London: Routledge, 2003.

        • Lemon, M. C.  The Discipline of History and the History of Thought.  1995.

        • Mandelbaum, Maurice.  The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge.  1977.

        • Mandelbaum, Maurice.  The Problem of Historical Knowledge.  1938.

        • McLennan, Gregor.  "History and Theory: Contemporary Debates and Directions."  Literature and History 10.2 (1984): 139-164.

        • Momigliana, Arnaldo D.  The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1992.

        • Novick, Peter.  That Noble Dream: the 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.

        • Prevenier, Walter, and Martha C. Howell.  From Reliable Sources: an Introduction to Historical Methods.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001.

        • Stanford, Michael.  An Introduction to the Philosophy of History.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
        • Stanford, Michael.  A Companion to the Study of History.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

        • Stanford, Michael.  The Nature of Historical Knowledge.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
        • Thompson, James WestfallA History of Historical Writing.  1942.
        • Tosh, Peter.  The Pursuit of History

        • Wilson, Norman J.  History in Crisis?  Recent Directions in Historiography.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1998.

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