Historiography Bibliography

General Historiography

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History. Norton, 1994.

Claude Alvares, Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West, 1492 to the Present Day. The Other India Press, 1991.

Diane Barthel, Historical Preservation; Collective Memory and Historical Identity. Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Michael Bentley, Modern Historiography; An Introduction. Routledge, 1999.

Michael Bentley (ed.) Companion to Historiography. Routledge, 1997.

Jeremy Black, Maps and History; Constructing Images of the Past. Yale University Press, 1997.

Fernand Braudel, On History. University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Martin Bunzl, Real History; Reflections on Historical Practice. Routledge, 1997.

Philippe Carrard, Poetics of the New History: French Historiographical Discourse From Braudel to Chartier. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Noam Chomsky, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship. Black & Red, 1997.

G. Kitson Clark, The Critical Historian. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985.

Sande Cohen, Passive Nihilism: Cultural Historiography and the Rhetoric of Scholarship. Saint Martin's Press, 1998.

R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History. Oxford University Press, 1956.

Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

William H. Dray, On History and Philosophers of History. Brill Academic Publishers, 1989.

Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History From the Nation. University of Chicago Press.

Florike Egmond, The Mammoth and the Mouse; Microhistory and Morphology. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Ainslie T. Embree and Carol Gluck (eds.) Asia in Western and World History. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

James B. Gardner (ed.) Public History; Essays from the Field. Melbourne: Krieger Publishing Co., 1999.

Gordon Graham, The Shape of the Past; A Philosophical Approach to History. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Thomas L. Haskell, Objectivity Is Not Neutrality; Explanatory Schemes in History. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Eric Hobsbawm, On History. The New Press, 1997.

Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Rethinking World History; Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Lynn Hunt (ed.) The New Cultural History. University of California Press, 1989.

Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century; From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge. University Press of New England, 1997.

Keith Jenkins, The Postmodern History Reader. Routledge, 1997.

Harvey J. Kaye, "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" and Other Questions. St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Katherine Kearns, Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and Feminist Theory; The Search for Critical Method. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

David Levin, History As Romantic Art. AMS Press.

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Simon & Schuster, 1995.

C. Behan McCullagh, The Truth of History. Routledge, 1997.

Martin V. Melosi (ed.) Public History and the Environment. Melbourne: Krieger Publishing Co., 1999.

Greil Marcus, Dustbin of History. Harvard University Press, 1997.

Arnaldo Momigliano, Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography. University of California Press, 1992.

Alun Munslow, Deconstructing History. Routledge, 1997.

Christopher Norris, What's Wrong With Postmodernism? Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Jan Patocka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History. Open Court, 1996.

Philip Pomper, World History; Ideologies, Structures and Identities. Blackwell, 1998.

Mark Poster, Cultural History and Postmodernity; Disciplinary Readings and Challenges. Columbia University Press, 1997.

Michael S. Roth, The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History. Columbia University Press, 1995.

A.L. Rowse, The Use of History. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985.

Edward W. Said, Orientalism. Vintage, 1978.

Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History; Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determination. MIT Press, 1994.

Beverley Southgate, History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. Routledge, 1996.

Michael Stanford, An Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

Fritz Stern (ed.) The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present. Vintage, 1973.

John Tosh, The Pursuit of History; Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History. Longman, 1991.

Kathleen J. Turner, Doing Rhetorical History; Concepts and Cases. University of Alabama Press, 1998.

Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Howard Zinn, Failure to Quit; Reflections of an Optimistic Historian. Common Courage Press, 1993.

Environmental History

Robin Butlin, Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time. Edward Arnold of Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.

Anne Buttimer, Geography and the Human Spirit. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light; Theses on the Photography of History. Princeton University Press, 1997.

William Cronon (ed.) Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Norton, 1995.

Alfred Crosby, Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History. M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Arno Karlen, Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. Putnam, 1995.

William H. McNeill, Plagues and People. Anchor Books, 1998.

Michael B. A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History. Oxford University Press.

Emily W. B. Russell, People and the Land Through Time: Linking Ecology and History. Yale University Press, 1997.

I. G. Simmons, Environmental History: A Concise Introduction. Blackwell, 1993.

Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, and Bo Gustafsson (eds.) Nature and Society in Historical Context. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism. Yale University Press, 1997.

Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History. Little, Brown, 1963.

Research and Writing in History

Bernard Bailyn, On the Teaching and Writing of History. University of New England Press, 1994.

Howard S. Becker with Pamela Richards, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Howard S. Becker, Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Guide to History. Seventh Edition. Bedford, 1998.

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Michel De Certeau, The Writing of History. Columbia University Press, 1992.

Sanford Kaye, Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Roger Lloyd-Jones and Myrddin Lewis, Using Computers in History: A Practical Guide. Routledge, 1996.

Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Second Edition. Bedford, 1998.

Janice L. Reiff, Digitizing the Past: The Use of Computers and Communication Technologies in History. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1999.

William K. Storey, Writing History; A Guide for Students. Oxford University Press, 1998.

William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style. Third Edition. Macmillan, 1979.

Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertation. Sixth Edition. Chicago University Press, 1996.

William Zinsser, On Writing Well. Fifth Edition. HarperPerennial, 1994.