Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, UK. Kevin Passmore is Professor of History at Cardiff University, UK.

• Notes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction to the Third Edition - Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and Cardiff University, UK)Part One: Rankeanism and the Professionalization of History 1 The New Scientificity in Historical Writing around 1800 - Heiko Feldner (Cardiff University, UK)2 The Rankean Tradition in British Historiography, 1840-1950 - John Warren (Birmingham City University, UK)3 The Professionalization and Institutionalization of History - Peter Lambert (Aberyswyth University, UK)Part Two: The Social Turn4 Marxist Historiography - Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)5 History and the Social Sciences - John Harvey (St Cloud State University, USA)6 The Annales - Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig, Germany)Part Three: The Cultural Turn7 Poststructuralist and Linguistic Methods- Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)8 From Women’s History to Gender History- Laura Lee Downs (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)9 Postcolonial History- Gavin Murray-Miller (Cardiff University, UK)Part Four: The Eclecticism of Contemporary Historical Writing 10 Psychoanalysis and Psychohistorical Methods- Garthine Walker with Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)11 Historical Anthropology- Jakob Tanner (University of Zurich, Switzerland)12 Environmental and Animal History- Lloyd Price (Cardiff University, UK)13 History and Material Culture- Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)14 Comparative and Transnational History- Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)Part Five: Some Case Studies15 Political History- Jon Lawrence and Alexandre Campsie (University of Cambridge, UK)16 Social History- Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld University, Germany)17 Cultural History- Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)18 Economic History- Pat Hudson (Cardiff University, UK)19 Intellectual History/History of Ideas- Beverly Southgate (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Berger, Passmore and Feldner have assembled a remarkable and essential book for our times. It is at once a tour of the discipline of history and its major currents as well as a series of meditations on its future pathways. Students and scholars alike will draw enlightenment and inspiration from it.