Writing History

The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a discipline and the major theoretical developments that have informed historical writing. Instead of focusing on theory, this book offers succinct explanations of key concepts that illuminate the study of history and practical writing, and demonstrates the ways they have informed practical work. This fully revised new edition comprehensively rewrites and updates original chapters but also includes new features such as: - new chapters on postcolonial, environmental and transnational history; - chapter introductions setting them within the context of historiography; - a new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful road-map for students; - an expanded glossary. In its new incarnation Writing History is, more than ever, an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped history.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, UK. Kevin Passmore is Professor of History at Cardiff University, UK.

Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction to the Third Edition - Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and Cardiff University, UK) Part One: Rankeanism and the Professionalization of History 1 The New Scientificity in Historical Writing around 1800 - Heiko Feldner (Cardiff University, UK) 2 The Rankean Tradition in British Historiography, 1840-1950 - John Warren (Birmingham City University, UK) 3 The Professionalization and Institutionalization of History - Peter Lambert (Aberyswyth University, UK) Part Two: The Social Turn 4 Marxist Historiography - Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) 5 History and the Social Sciences - John Harvey (St Cloud State University, USA) 6 The Annales - Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig, Germany) Part Three: The Cultural Turn 7 Poststructuralist and Linguistic Methods- Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK) 8 From Women's History to Gender History- Laura Lee Downs (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France) 9 Postcolonial History- Gavin Murray-Miller (Cardiff University, UK) Part Four: The Eclecticism of Contemporary Historical Writing 10 Psychoanalysis and Psychohistorical Methods- Garthine Walker with Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK) 11 Historical Anthropology- Jakob Tanner (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 12 Environmental and Animal History- Lloyd Price (Cardiff University, UK) 13 History and Material Culture- Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK) 14 Comparative and Transnational History- Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Part Five: Some Case Studies 15 Political History- Jon Lawrence and Alexandre Campsie (University of Cambridge, UK) 16 Social History- Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld University, Germany) 17 Cultural History- Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK) 18 Economic History- Pat Hudson (Cardiff University, UK) 19 Intellectual History/History of Ideas- Beverly Southgate (University of Hertfordshire, UK)