Rethinking History

Volume 3, Number 3, Autumn 1999

Contents

Editorial
In this issue 245

Articles
History and Despotism, or: Hayden White vs. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great 247
Kevin Platt

On Writing the Histor(ies) of Modern Medicine 271
Paolo Palladino

Experiments
Reconditioning History: Adapting Knowledge from the Past into Realities of the Present: a Mexican-American Graveyard 289
Marie Theresa Hernandez

Commentaries on 'Reconditioning History' 309
Gabriela F. Arredondo
Armando C. Alonzo
Alun Munslow
Laura Mason

Response to Commentaries on 'Reconditioning History' 319
Marie Theresa Hernandez

Miniatures
The Abattoir of the Prairie 321
William Deverell and David Igler

Reclaiming the Croatian Flag 324
Alex J. Bellamy

The Sensory Basis of Historical Analysis: A Reply to Post-Structuralism 329
Eric Kaufmann

Controversies
Playing the Gender History Game: A Reply to Penelope J. Corfield 333
June Purvis and Amanda Weatherill

From Women's History to Gender History: A Reply to 'Playing the Gender History Game' 339
Penelope J. Corfield

Waving Goodbye to History? A Response to Keith Jenkins 342
Paolo Palladino

On Whether Time Tells…A Revision of Postmodern History 345
Peter Brickley

Abstracts and Keywords 371

Notes on Contributors 377

Notes for Contributors 379

Index, volume 3, 1999 385

Rethinking History

Volume 3 Number 2, Summer 1999

Contents

Editorial 129

Articles
The Politics and Poetics of Modern British Leisure: a late twentieth-century review 131
Peter Bailey

History as Horizon: Gadamer, tradition and critique 177
Michael Pickering

Review Article
Cultural History, French Style 197
William Scott

Abstract and Keywords 235

Notes on Contributors 237

Notes for Contributors 239

Rethinking History

Volume 3 Number 1, Spring 1999

Editorial
In this issue 1

Invitation to Historians
'After History' 7
Keith Jenkins

Articles
Shakespeare's 'whole History': drama and early modern historical theory 21
Graham Holderness

Modular Readings (Writing the Monument): the case of Lapis Satricanus 53
Wolfgang Ernst

Miniatures
Blood of a Bittern Ear 75
Jay Spaulding

Guilt 79
Bryant Simon

Dictator in a Dumpster: thoughts on history and garbage 81
Maureen Healy

Featured Review
History after the Geographic Turn: Peter Bacon Hales (1997) Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project 85
David Farber, Virginia Scharff and Timothy Moy

Abstracts and Keywords 117

Notes on Contributors 121

Notes for Contributors 123

Rethinking History

Volume 2 Number 3, Autumn 1998

Special Issue: The good of history: ethics, post-structuralism and the representation of the past
Edited by Robert Eaglestone and Susan Pitt

Contents

Editorial
The good of history: ethics, post-structuralism and the representation of the past 309
Robert Eaglestone and Susan Pitt

Articles
The 'Fine Risk' of History: post structuralism, the past and the work of Emmanuel Levinas 313
Robert Eaglestone

Archaeological Dilemmas? Ethics, materialities and pasts 321
Margaret Ronayne

High Visibility: images of ethical life in The Tragic Muse and Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' 331
Peter Middleton

Mending the Skin of Memory: ethics and history in contemporary narratives 339
Tim Woods

Exhibiting Racism: cultural imperialism, genocide and representation 349
Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner

Ethics, Historical Relativism and Holocaust Denial 359
Patrick Finney

Feminist Post-structuralist Engagements with History 371
Mary Baker

The Historian as Inquisitor: the ethics of interrogating subaltern voice 379
John H. Arnold

The Word of God and the Ethics of Religious Past in Northern Ireland 387
Tom Webster

Representation Otherness: feminism, logocentrism and the discipline of history Susan Pitt

Abstracts and Keywords 417

Notes on Contributors 423

Notes for Contributors 425

Rethinking History

Volume 2 Number 2, Summer 1998

Contents

Editorial: In this issue of Rethinking History 139

Invitation to Historians Writing, Rewriting the Beach: an essay 143
Greg Dening

Articles
Founding a Convent in Early Modern Spain: cultural history, hegemonic processes, and the plurality of the historical subject 173
Richard Maddox

Historical Lessons and Discourse on Defence in France and Germany, 1945-90 199
Beatrice Heuser

Reconsiderations
Beyond 'The West': regionalism, liberalism, and the evasion of politics in the new Western history 239
Robert D. Johnston

Abstracts and keywords 297

Notes on Contributors 301

Notes for Contributors 303

Rethinking History

Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 1998

Contents

Editorial 1

Articles
Narrative Objectivity Versus Fiction: on the ontology of historical narratives 7
Kalle Pihlainen

Discourse Analysis as Critical Historiography: a sémanalyse of mystic speech 23
Katherine Arens

Reconstructing the Voice of a Noblewoman of the time of Peter the Great: Daria Mikhaailovna Menshikova 51
Robin Bisha

Discourses in Local History 65
George Sheeran and Yanina Sheeran

Review Essay
Rethinking Film as American History 87
Sumiko Higashi

Abstracts and Keywords 127

Notes on Contributors 131

Notes for Contributors 133

Rethinking History

Volume 1 Number 3, Winter 1997

Contents

Editorial 227

In this Issue 235

Call for Papers: themed issues 239

Articles
History and the Challenge of Gender History 241
Penelope J. Corfield

The Two Histories: metaphor in English historiographical writing 259
Ann Curthoys and John Docker

Impressions of the Somme: and experiment 275
Chris Ward

Beyond Irony and Relativism: what is postmodern history for? 311
David Andress

Looking at Life: biography on film 327
Laura Mason

When I was a Child, I Danced as a Child, But Know that I am Old, I Think About Salvation: Concepción González and a past that would not stay put 343
Marjorie Becker

Review Article
International History, Theory and the Origins of the Second World War 357
Patrick Finney

Notes on Contributors 389

Notes for Contributors 391

Rethinking History

Volume 1 Number 2, Autumn 1997

Contents

Editorial 111

Articles
The New and Newer Histories: social theory and historiography in an American key 125
Dorothy Ross

Reader-Relativism in History 151
Gunnar Karlsson

Narrating a Southern Tragedy: historical facts and historical fictions 165
Bryant Simon

Re-Review
Re-Thinking Intellect: Richard Hofstadter, the anti-intellectual tradition, and American popular culture 189
Barbara L. Tischler

Notes on Contributors 221

Notes for Contributors 223

Rethinking History

Volume 1 Number 1, Spring 1997

Contents

Editorial 1

Articles
Strategic re-membering: the boundary politics of mourning in post- Great War France 21
M. Brady Brower

Foucault Stoned: reconsidering insanity, and history 34
William Pencak

Why Brother with the Past? Engaging with some issues raised by the possible 'end of history as we have known it' 56
Keith Jenkins

Re-Review
The Incomparable Elkins 67
Peter Ling

Review Essay
Authority and Reality in the Representation of the Past 75
Alun Munslow

Notes on Contributors 103

Notes for Contributors 105