Description:The first clear guide to the minefields and meanings of postmodernism for history students.The book provides a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory for undergraduate students of Historical Theory and Historiography courses ? often compulsory modulesShortest and clearest introduction available to this essential yet challenging topicIt provides examples of how historians have used postmodern theory in their research and writingIt summarises anti-postmodernist criticisms and gives ways of responding to them The book aims to empower those frightened by postmodern theory and the very idea of it.