Preface.

List of Contributors.

Chapter 1: Overture: the New History, its Past and its Future: Peter Burke.

Chapter 2: History From Below: Jim Sharpe.

Chapter 3: Women's History: Joan Scott.

Chapter 4: Overseas History: Henk Wesseling.

Chapter 5: On Microhistory: Giovanni Levi.

Chapter 6: Oral History: Gywn Prins.

Chapter 7 History of Reading: Robert Darnton.

Chapter 8: Visual History: Ivan Gaskell.

Chapter 9: History of Political Thought: Richard Tuck.

Chapter 10: History of the Body Reconsidered: Roy Porter.

Chapter 11: Environmental History: Richard Grove.

Chapter 12: History of Events and the Revival of Narrative: Peter Burke.

Notes.

Index

About the Author

Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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