The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market. // Table of Contents The empiricists -- Marxist historians -- Freud and psychohistory -- The Annales -- Historical sociology -- Quantitative history -- Anthropology and ethnohistorians -- The question of narrative -- Oral history -- Gender and history -- Postcolonial perspectives -- The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism. Readings: England under the Tudors. Chapter II, Henry VII: securing the dynasty / G.R. Elton -- Exploitation / E.P. Thompson -- The legend of Hitler's childhood / Erik H. Erikson -- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II / Fernand Braudel -- France, Russia, China: a structural analysis of social revolutions / Theda Skocpol -- The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 / Richard Wall -- Yucatec Maya women and the Spanish conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Inga Clendinnen -- The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson -- Gender divisions and class formation in the Birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall -- White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman -- Science and séance: transgressions of gender and genre / Judith R. Walkowitz.