HISTORICAL THEORY
(METAHISTORY / HISTORIOGRAPHY)

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Continental:

  • Marxism:

  • Mythology:

  • Neo-Hegelian Idealism:

    • Benedetto Croce (1866 - 1952)

    • Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)

    • R. G. Collingwood (1889 - 1943)

    • Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)

  • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

  • Psychoanalysis:

  • (Post-)Structuralisms:

    • Deconstruction:

      • Keith Jenkins (1943 - )

      • Alun Munslow (1947 - )

    • Deleuzean Theory:

    • Dialogism:

      • Dominick LaCapra (1939 - )

    • Foucauldian Theory:

    • Semiotics / Semiology / Structuralism:

      • Hayden White (1928 - )

      • F. R. Ankersmit (1945 - )

    • Structuralist Marxism:

    • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

• Pragmatism:

  • Louis O. Mink (1921 - 1983)

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

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JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • 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 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.

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

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

  • 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.

• Selected Individual Works:

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

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

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

  • Gallagher, Shaun, ed.  Hegel, History, and Interpretation.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Nora, Pierre.  "Between Memory and History: Les Leiux de Memoire."  Representations 26 (1989): .

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

  • 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.

  • 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)
  • Stanford, Michael.  The Nature of Historical Knowledge.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
  • Stannard, D.  Shrinking History: on Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory.  Oxford: OUP, 1980.
  • 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:

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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: 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

• Selected Individual Works:

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Gardiner, Patrick L.  The Nature of Historical Explanation.  Oxford: OUP, 1993.
  • Gilderhus, Mark T.  History and Historians: a Historiographical Introduction.  Upper Saddle River, NJ.:  Prentice Hall, .

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

  • Hamilton, Paul.  Historicism.  London: Routledge, 1996.

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

  • Hornblower, Simon.  Greek Historiography.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.
  • Clark, Elizabeth A.  History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard UP, 2004.
  • Iggers, Georg G.  Historiography in the Twentieth Century.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1997.
  • Iggers, Georg G.  1968.
    • The German Conception of History: the National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1983.  [1968]
  • Jameson, Frederic.  "Marxism and Historicism."  New Literary History 11 (1979): 41-72.

  • Lee, Dwight, and Robert Beck.  "The Meaning of Historicism."  American Historical Review 59 (1954): 568-577.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Stanford, Michael.  An Introduction to the Philosophy of History.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • Thompson, James Westfall.  A History of Historical Writing.  1942.

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

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• Butterfield, Herbert: Historiography (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
• Concordia University, Wisconsin: Historiography
• Dorfman, Ben: Thinking the World: a Comment on Philosophy of History and Globalization Studies International Social Science Review (2005)
• Gardiner, Patrick: Causation in History (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
• Iggers, Georg G.: Historicism (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
• Ireland, : Postmodernism and History

• Little, Daniel: Philosophy of History (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Megill, Alan: 

  • Philosophy of History Annotated Bibliography (.pdf document)

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• Minnesota State University EMuseum: Archaeology

• Moon, David: Fernand Braudel and the Annales School

• Newall, Paul: Philosophy of History

• O'Brien, Karl: An Engagement with Postmodern Foes

• Reed, T. V.: Historical Theories and Methods

• Roberts, David D.: Nothing but History: Reconstruction and Extremity after Metaphysics

• What is History History in Focus (2001)

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