Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors;
Preface;
1 Overture. The New History: Its Past and its Future Peter Burke;
2 History from Below Jim Sharpe;
3 Women’s History Joan W., Scott;
4 Overseas History Henk Wesseling;
5 On Microhistory Giovanni Levi;
6 Oral History Gwyn Prins;
7 History of Reading Robert Darnton;
8 Visual History Ivan Gaskell;
9 History of Political Thought Richard Tuck;
10 History of the Body Reconsidered Roy Porter;
11 Environmental History Richard H. Grove;
12 History of Events and the Revival of Narrative Peter Burke
Index.

A new edition of this best-selling collection of essays by leading experts on historical methodology.
Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.
Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history "from below," the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.