Contents	6
	Dedication	7
	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction: history, theory, ideology	10
	Chapter 1 History today	24
	SECTION ONE: WORKING THE PAST-HISTORY DISTINCTION	25
	SECTION TWO: FOUR IMPLICATIONS OF BENNETT, ANKERSMIT AND WHITE	30
	SECTION THREE: SOME REACTIONS AND SOME RESPONSES	34
	LOCATING CARR, ELTON, RORTY AND WHITE	45
	Chapter 2 On E.H.Carr	52
	ON CARR BEING SCEPTICAL	53
	ON CARR BEING POSITIVE	61
	CARR TODAY	70
	Chapter 3 On Geoffrey Elton	74
	CONVICTIONS AND PREJUDICES	76
	ON PRINCIPLES	80
	ON ONTOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHOD	86
	ON WRITING HISTORY	95
	USING ELTON TODAY: THE POVERTY OF EXPERIENCE	100
	Chapter 4 On Richard Rorty	108
	SECTION ONE: ON TRUTH	110
	SECTION TWO: ON DEFINING AND USING ‘TRUTH’	114
	SECTION THREE: ON METAPHOR	118
	SECTION FOUR: A POLITY OF RORTIES	124
	SECTION FIVE: DEBATING RORTY	130
	SECTION SIX: ON HISTORY—FROM RORTY TO WHITE	141
	Chapter 5 On Hayden White	146
	SECTION ONE: THE POLITICS OF HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION	148
	SECTION TWO: ON NARRATIVE	158
	SECTION THREE: ON THE USE OF WHITE	185
	SECTION FOUR: LOOSE ENDS	189
	Notes	192
	Further reading	208
	BOOKS ON POSTMODERNISM	209
	BOOKS ON POSTMODERNISM AND HISTORY	209
	ARTICLES ON HISTORY AND POSTMODERNISM	210
	OTHER ARTICLES	210
	Index of names	212
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