Introduction. 1. ‘Writing, Rewriting the Beach: an Essay’ by Greg Dening 2. ‘"After" History’ by Keith Jenkins 3. ‘History Is Public or Nothing’ by Alice Kessler-Harris 4. ‘I am not a baseball historian’ by Steven A. Reiss 5. ‘Beyond History’ by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth 6. ‘Practices of Historical Narrative’ by Richard Price 7. ‘More Secondary Modern than Postmodern’ by Patrick Joyce 8. Untitled by Frank R. Ankersmit 9. ‘Confessions of a Postmodern(?) Historian’ by Robert A. Rosenstone 10. ‘The Story of "My Engagements with the Past"’ by Peter Munz 11. ‘In Search of Ariadne’s Thread’ by Beverley Southgate 12. Untitled by C. Behan McCullagh 13. ‘An Intellectual Self-Portrait or the Story of a historian’ by Peter Burke 14. ‘History, the Historian and an Autobiography’ by Jeremy D. Popkin 15. Untitled by Alex Macfie. Glossary.
Biography
Alun Munslow is a founding and UK editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. His recent publications include Narrative and History (2007) and The Future of History (2010).
"This is a fascinating collection of responses to the "Invitations to Historians" generated by the editors of Rethinking History to narrate their personal trajectories as developing historians and their investments in its practice." - Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
