The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments.

The book is divided into three key parts, covering:

- Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Kn...

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments.

The book is divided into three key parts, covering:

- Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past

- Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History

- Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations.

This important handbook brings together, in one volume, discussions of modernity, empiricism, deconstruction, narrative and postmodernity in the continuing evolution of the historical discipline into our post-postmodern era. Chapters are written by leading academics from around the world and cover a wide array of specialized areas of the discipline, including social history, intellectual history, gender, memory, psychoanalysis and cultural history. The influence of major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Hayden White is fully examined.

This handbook is an essential resource for practising historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.

南希·帕特纳：加拿大麦吉尔大学历史学教授。她的研究兴趣是中世纪历史书写、精神分析在历史学中的应用，以及以叙事理论和认识论为重心的史学理论，编有《研究中世纪妇女：性、性别、女性主义》（1993）和《书写中世纪史》（2005）。现在她正致力于演技叙事构造与欧洲认同这一主题。

萨拉·富特：英国牛津大学基督教堂学院教会史荣休教授。她精研盎格鲁-撒克逊修道院、妇女与宗教、英国人发明，以及历史编纂学和史学理论。著有《戴面纱的妇女：盎格鲁-撒克逊时期英格兰修女的消失》（2002）和《艾赛斯坦：第一位英国君主》（2011)。