Pt. 1. History for its own sake. Fidelity to the sources: V.H. Galbraith ; G.R. Elton -- Empathy and imagination: C.V. Wedgwood ; Richard Cobb -- pt. 2. Political histories. History as progress: J.H. Plumb ; E.H. Carr -- The nation: H. Butterfield ; Daniel Boorstin ; A. Adu Boahen -- Marxism: Christopher Hill ; E.J. Hobsbawm ; Eugene Genovese -- pt. 3. The new radicalism. People's history: Raphael Samuel ; Ranajit Guha -- Gender: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg ; Joan Scott ; Gisela Bok -- Race: Vincent Harding ; Catherine Hall -- pt. 4. Learning from history. Persistence and change: March Bloch ; Peter Laslett -- Beyond stereotypes: Michael Howard ; Howard Zinn -- Qualified predictions: H.R. Trevor-Roper ; Alan Bullock -- pt. 5. History as social science. New questions, new concepts: Richard Hofstadter ; Philip Abrams -- The authority of numbers: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; Robert William Fogel -- Reactions: Fernand Braudel ; Lawrence Stone ; Theodore Zeldin -- pt. 6. The impact of postmodernism. The assault on historicism: Patrick Joyce ; Joan Scott -- The backlash: Gertrude Himmelfarb ; Arthur Marwick -- Assimilation and synthesis: Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob ; Richard Evans -- pt. 7. Beyond academia: H.R. Trevor-Roper ; Gerda Lerner.
