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CONTENTS ARTICLES RICHARD BIERNACKI, Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry MICHAEL DINTENFASS, Truth’s Other: Ethics, the History of the Holocaust, and Historiographical Theory after the Linguistic Turn JOHN R. HALL, Cultural Meanings and Cultural Structures in Historical RII: ssconhshantndinisenciensmetisnlachpnbdianenadbelahiadiaimmmmanentninieraaneiineannee FRANCOIS HARTOG, The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept a ee I ai icdininentinhijetieisiiiebibiiiainniinsiaiininiidimennpmunnnieeeiaee KEITH JENKINS, A Postmodern Reply to Perez Zagorin ANNE KANE, Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation: Narratives as Cultural Structure and Practice.............::cccccseeseereeeeeeeeeed Ll CHRIS LORENZ, Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry C. BEHAN MCCULLAGH, Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation WOLFGANG MOMMSEN, Max Weber’s “Grand Sociology”: The Origins and Composition of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Sociologie JURGEN PieTERS, New Historicism: Postmodern Historiography between Narrativism and Heterology THUS POLLMAN, Coherence and Ambiguity in History Step STUURMAN, The Canon of the History of Political Thought: Its Critique and a Proposed Alternative PEREZ ZAGORIN, Rejoinder to a PostmoderMist................cccescceeeeeeeeeeeeereeeneees 201 REVIEW ESSAYS RoBert H. Bates, AVNER GREIF, MARGARET LEvi, JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL, and Barry R. WEINGAST, Analytic Narratives (Brian M. Downing) KATHLEEN Bippick, The Shock of Medievalism (Gabrielle M. Spiegel) PAUL A. COHEN, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Greg Deming)...............c.sscsssssssssesssssecsesenes GREG DENING, Performances (Richard T. Vann) EwA DOMANSKA, Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism (R. D. Blackburm)................:ccsssecccsssesecsssrecssseccessseesenenecs RICHARD J. Evans, In Defence of History (Wulf Kansteiner)......................0.++. DaviD HARLAN, The Degradation of American History (Raymond Martin) C. BEHAN MCCULLAGH, The Truth of History (J. L. Gorman) MELVIN RICHTER, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction and 1AIN HAMPSHER-MONK, History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives (Mark Bevirt).............0..00+ 273 Roy ROSENZWEIG and DaAviID THELEN, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (Michael Kammen) Kurt ROtTGerS, Die Lineatur der Geschichte (Robert Anchor) Eric L. SANTNER, My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity (Dagmar Herzog) Car E. Scuorske, Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Trygve R. Tholfsen) WENDY SINGER, Creating Histories: Oral Narratives and the Politics re iii escttsisctctatesecninntnnciinsiennstunmmesiasinnmnnsasens 417 THOMAS L. THOMPSON, The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel (Jeremy Zwelling) HAYDEN WuHitE, Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect SN aise ticeedhntbeniasebnsbvislcbcasnipicnndecanninenentdimionieminionseti 396 CONTENTS ARTICLES RICHARD BIERNACKI, Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry MICHAEL DINTENFASS, Truth’s Other: Ethics, the History of the Holocaust, and Historiographical Theory after the Linguistic Turn JOHN R. HALL, Cultural Meanings and Cultural Structures in Historical RII: ssconhshantndinisenciensmetisnlachpnbdianenadbelahiadiaimmmmanentninieraaneiineannee FRANCOIS HARTOG, The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept a ee I ai icdininentinhijetieisiiiebibiiiainniinsiaiininiidimennpmunnnieeeiaee KEITH JENKINS, A Postmodern Reply to Perez Zagorin ANNE KANE, Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation: Narratives as Cultural Structure and Practice.............::cccccseeseereeeeeeeeeed Ll CHRIS LORENZ, Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry C. BEHAN MCCULLAGH, Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation WOLFGANG MOMMSEN, Max Weber’s “Grand Sociology”: The Origins and Composition of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Sociologie JURGEN PieTERS, New Historicism: Postmodern Historiography between Narrativism and Heterology THUS POLLMAN, Coherence and Ambiguity in History Step STUURMAN, The Canon of the History of Political Thought: Its Critique and a Proposed Alternative PEREZ ZAGORIN, Rejoinder to a PostmoderMist................cccescceeeeeeeeeeeeereeeneees 201 REVIEW ESSAYS RoBert H. Bates, AVNER GREIF, MARGARET LEvi, JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL, and Barry R. WEINGAST, Analytic Narratives (Brian M. Downing) KATHLEEN Bippick, The Shock of Medievalism (Gabrielle M. Spiegel) PAUL A. COHEN, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Greg Deming)...............c.sscsssssssssesssssecsesenes GREG DENING, Performances (Richard T. Vann) EwA DOMANSKA, Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism (R. D. Blackburm)................:ccsssecccsssesecsssrecssseccessseesenenecs RICHARD J. Evans, In Defence of History (Wulf Kansteiner)......................0.++. DaviD HARLAN, The Degradation of American History (Raymond Martin) C. BEHAN MCCULLAGH, The Truth of History (J. L. Gorman) MELVIN RICHTER, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction and 1AIN HAMPSHER-MONK, History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives (Mark Bevirt).............0..00+ 273 Roy ROSENZWEIG and DaAviID THELEN, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (Michael Kammen) Kurt ROtTGerS, Die Lineatur der Geschichte (Robert Anchor) Eric L. SANTNER, My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity (Dagmar Herzog) Car E. Scuorske, Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Trygve R. Tholfsen) WENDY SINGER, Creating Histories: Oral Narratives and the Politics re iii escttsisctctatesecninntnnciinsiennstunmmesiasinnmnnsasens 417 THOMAS L. THOMPSON, The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel (Jeremy Zwelling) HAYDEN WuHitE, Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect SN aise ticeedhntbeniasebnsbvislcbcasnipicnndecanninenentdimionieminionseti 396 BOOKS IN SUMMARY STEPHEN G. ALTER, Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, JACQUES BERLINERBLAU, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals PHILIPPE BORGEAUD with NICOLE DuRISCH, ANTJE KOLDE, GREGOIRE SOMMER, La mythologie du matriarcat, l’atelier de Johann Jakob Bachofen MILES FAIRBURN, Social History: Problems, Strategies and Methods FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN, ed., Los Alemanes, el holocausto y la culpa colectiva: El Debate Goldhagen ANNA GREEN AND KATHLEEN TROUP, eds., The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory B. W. HIGMAN, Writing West Indian Histories STEFAN JORDAN, Geschichtstheorie in der ersten Hailfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Schwellenzeit zwischen Pragmatismus und Klassischem Historismus STEFAN JORDAN, ed., Schwellenzeittexte. Quellen zur deutschsprachigen Geschichtstheorie in der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts MaRK N. Katz, Reflections on Revolutions DONALD R. KELLEY, Faces of History: Historical Inquiry TE inc seb desinicnininttiahiniiiianntbiaseteiiliaieieimmniciniemetensnmns 287 PRESTON KING, Thinking Past a Problem: Essays on the History of Ideas........ 429 JosePH M. Levine, The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon PHILIP NICHOLSON, Who Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World S. H. RicBy, Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction AXEL SCHNEIDER, Wahrheit und Geschichte: Zwei chinesische Historiker auf der Suche nach einer modernen Identitdt fiir China ERNST SCHULIN, L’idea di Oriente in Hegel e Ranke 9 EE ee 431 PETER VAN DER VEER, ed., Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia THEME ISSUE 39 (DECEMBER 2000) NOT TELLING: SECRECY, LIES, AND HISTORY MARTIN LeGaASSICK and GARY MINKLEY, Introduction Luise Wire, Telling More: Lies, Secrets, and History HELENA POHLANDT-McCormick, “I Saw a Nightmare...”: Violence and the Construction of Memory PREMESH LALU, The Grammar of Domination and the Subjection of Agency: Colonial Texts and Modes of Evidence JABULANI SITHOLE and SIBONGISEN!I MKHIZE, Selective Rememberings, Imagings, and Representatious: Chief Albert Luthuli in Modern Political Discourses, 1967 to 1995 HELEN BRADFORD, The Rise of the Male Peasantry: A South African “Case Study,” 1850-1886 SiFIso MxoLisi NDLOvU, Johannes Nkosi and the CPSA: Images of “Blood River’/iNcome and King Dingane in the late 1920s—1930