Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part One Historical Controversies -- Chapter One French Resistance: a few home truths -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Two Ordinary Germans as Hitler's willing executioners? The Goldhagen controversy -- Success… -- …and savage criticism -- The reception in Germany -- Goldhagen's German critics -- German praise -- Police battalions -- The labour camps -- The death marches -- The problem -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Three Unreliable memories? The use and abuse of oral history -- The voice of the past -- "Old men forget" -- Anzac memories: gone for a soldier -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Four The English reputations of Oliver Cromwell 1660-1900 -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Five Histories of the welfare state -- "Whig Histories?" -- From "welfare state" to "welfare system" -- Women and welfare -- Welfare before the welfare state -- The persistence of the Poor Law -- "Consensus" in "the best welfare state in the world" -- Welfare spending and the economy -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Six Placing "race" in South African history -- Introduction -- Race and class -- The ideology of race in colonial times -- Imperialism and scientific racism -- Racial segregation -- Apartheid -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Seven Agrarian histories and agricultural revolutions -- Suggestions for further reading -- Part Two Historians -- Chapter Eight The Weber thesis: "unproven yet unrefuted" -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Nine R.H.Tawney: "Who did not write a single work which can be trusted"? -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Ten Lawrence Stone and interdisciplinary history -- Suggestions for further reading.

Chapter Eleven Jacob Burckhardt: romanticism and cultural history -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Twelve Anthony Blunt and Lucien Goldmann: Christianity, Marxism and the ends of history -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Thirteen Bernard Bailyn and the scope of American history -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Fourteen Writing women in: the development of feminist approaches to women's history -- Introduction -- A brief history of women's history -- Women's history and poststructuralism: a current debate -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Fifteen The new history: the Annales school of history and modern historiography -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Sixteen Opiate of the people and stimulant for the historian?-some issues in sports history -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Seventeen E.P.Thompson: witness against the beast -- Class and culture -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Eighteen Soviet historians and the rediscovery of the Soviet past -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index.