Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Heroductus and World History; 2 Thucydides; 3 Leopold von Banke and Sir Walter Scott; 4 History, Science and Art; 5 Has History any Meaning?; 6 History in the Light of Catastrophe; 7 The Linguistic Turn; 8 The Feminist Challenge; 9 Postmodernism; 10 Anti-Postmodernism and the Holocaust; 11 History Wars.

About the Author

Ann Curthoys is a well-known historian and public intellectual. She has published many books, her most recent being Freedom Ride: A Freedomrider Remembers (2002). John docker is a well-known literary and cultural critic. His numerous books include Posmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History and 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora.