ABSTRACT

Written by some of the world’s leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna Bourke and an afterword by Hayden White, these manifestos – critical, innovative, reflexive, inspirational – are absolutely essential reading, not just for those embarking on the study of history, but for all those who would think seriously about ‘the nature of history’ in its present and possible future forms. This collection establishes a benchmark for all future considerations upon the discourse of history.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction: on fidelity and diversity

ByKEITH JENKINS, SUE MORGAN, ALUN MUNSLOW

chapter 1|8 pages

Space for the bird to fly

ByROBERT A. ROSENSTONE

chapter 2|20 pages

History-writing as critique

ByJOAN W. SCOTT

chapter 3|11 pages

Manifesto for a history of the media

ByMARK POSTER

chapter 4|17 pages

The closed space of choice: a manifesto on the future of history

ByELIZABETH DEEDS ERMARTH

chapter 5|10 pages

‘Humani nil alienum’: the quest for ‘human nature’

ByBEVERLEY SOUTHGATE

chapter 6|11 pages

History and the politics of recognition

ByDIPESH CHAKRABARTY

chapter 7|10 pages

The gift of the past: towards a critical history

ByPATRICK JOYCE

chapter 8|10 pages

Performing cross-culturally

ByGREG DENING

chapter 9|23 pages

Historical fiction and the future of academic history

ByDAVID HARLAN

chapter 11|11 pages

Being an improper historian

ByANN RIGNEY

chapter 12|19 pages

Resisting apocalypse and rethinking history

ByDOMINICK LACAPRA

chapter 13|18 pages

Manifesto for an analytical political history

ByFRANK ANKERSMIT

chapter 14|8 pages

Historiographical criticism: a manifesto

ByEWA DOMANSKA

chapter 15|15 pages

The past of the future: from the foreign to the undiscovered country

ByDAVID LOWENTHAL