Introduction: on being open about our closures / Keith Jenkins
The postmodern condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard
The illusion of the end / Jean Baudrillard
Sequel to history / Elizabeth Ermarth
Romancing the postmodern ; Feminism and deconstruction / Diane Elam
White mythologies: writing history and the west / Robert Young
Migrancy, culture, identity / Iain Chambers
Literary criticism and the politics of the new historicism / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Postmodernizing history: right-wing revisionism and the uses of theory / Christopher Norris
Critical theory, historical materialism, and the ostensible end of Marxism: the poverty of theory revisited / Bryan Palmer
The discourse of history / Roland Barthes
Nietzsche, genealogy, history / Michel Foucault
Language and historical representation / Hans Kellner
The challenge of poetics to (normal) historical practice / Robert Berkhofer
Telling it as you like it: postmodernist history and the flight from fact / Gertrude Himmelfarb
Return to essentials / Geoffrey Elton
History, historicism, and the social logic of the text in the Middle Ages / Gabrielle Spiegel
Telling the truth about history / Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob
Outside literature ; Texts in history / Tony Bennett
Making history: reflections on feminism, narrative, and desire / Susan Stanford Friedman
Extracts from Past and present
History and postmodernism / Lawrence Stone ; Patrick Joyce ; Catriona Kelly ; Gabrielle Spiegel
Extracts from History and theory
Historiography and postmodernism / F.R. Ankersmit
Historiography and postmodernism: reconsiderations / P. Zagorin
Extracts from Social history
History, language, ideas and postmodernism: a materialist view / Neville Kirk
The end of social history? / Patrick Joyce
Starting over: the present, the postmodern, and the moment of social history / Geoffery Eley and Keith Nield
The end of social history? A brief reply to Eley and Nield / Patrick Joyce
History and theory, and Saul Friedlander (ed.): Probing the limits of representation: the Holocaust debate / Keith Jenkins
Probing the limits of representation / Saul Friedlander
Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White
"Never again" is now / Hans Kellner
From exception to exemplum: the new approaches to Nazism and the "final solution" / Wulf Kansteiner
The Holocaust and problems of representation / Robert Braun
Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust? / Berel Lang.