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From: Ken Pomeranz <klpomera@uci.edu>
Subject: NEW JOURNAL: "Rethinking History: Theory and Practice"
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS
>
>A new publication (first issue July 1997), RETHINKING HISTORY: THE JOURNAL
>OF THEORY AND PRACTICE, is dedicated to examining how historians today are
>challenging accepted ways of 'doing' history. Open to academics from
>different fields and specialties, the journal will be a forum for debates
>covering a wide variety of methods and approaches to the study of the past.
>RETHINKING HISTORY is also interested in new ways of telling the
>past; it is the first scholarly journal open to innovative and experimental
>forms of historical writing.
>
>The first issue of the journal features articles on Why Bother With the Past?
>by Keith Jenkins; Foucault vs. Lawrence Stone by William Pencak; The Politics
>of Mourning in Postwar France by M. Brady Bower; and essays on Stanley
>Elkins by Peter Ling, and Authority and Reality in the Representation
>of the Past by Alun Munslow. The second issue features articles on
>Social Theory and Historiography in America by Dorothy Ross; Reader-Relativism
>in History by Gunnar Karlsson; an essay on Richard Hofstadter and the
>Anti-Intellectual Tradition by Barbara L. Tischler; and an experimental
>piece of historical writing, Narrating a Southern Tragedy, by Bryant Simon.
>
>To become an active forum for scholarly debate, RETHINKING HISTORY is issuing
>a call for both PAPERS and SUBSCRIBERS. Topics can include anything
>that fits under the rubric of historical theory and practice. The journal
>will appear three times a year, and the editors plan to have one themed
>issue for each volume. Right now we are interested in papers that will
>fit into issues on the following themes: History and Fiction, Innovative
>(or Experimental) Historical Writing, History and Film. But scholars with
>other topics in mind should not hesitate to contact us.
>
>RETHINKING HISTORY will publish pieces of two lengths -- 5,000 to 7,000 word
>articles and 10,000 word essays --all unrestricted by period, place, or
>speciality. The journal also will include several regular features:
>
>* An Invitation to Historians' to explain how and why they write history
> as they do.
>* Concepts' will explore key concepts of historical analysis.
>* Re-Appraisals - will assess the contribution of individual historians,
> past and present
>* Re-Reviews will reassess "classic" history texts.
>* Notes and Comments section will provide a platform for scholarly debate
>* Book Reviews and Review Articles will survey the recent literature
>
>Inquiries about or suggestions for papers should be sent to one of the
>following editors:
>
>For scholars in the Western hemisphere:
> Robert A. Rosenstone
> Editor, Rethinking History
> Division of Humanities and Social Sciences 228-77
> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
> Phone: (626) 395-4069 / FAX: (626) 793-8580 /
> Email: rr@hss.caltech.edu
>
>For scholars in the rest of the world:
> Alun Munslow
> Editor, Rethinking History
> Historical Studies, Staffordshire University
> Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE
> United Kingdom
> Phone: (0)1782 294 532 / FAX (0) 1782 294 363 /
> Email: artam@staffs.ac.uk
>
>For book reviews:
> Laura Mason
> Book Reviews Editor, Rethinking History
> Department of History, University of Georgia
> Athens, GA 30602
> Phone: (706) 542-2484 / FAX: (706) 542 - 2455 /
> Email: lmason@uga.cc.uga.edu
>
>SUBSCRIPTIONS - European Union
> Sarah Goddard, Routledge Subscriptions
> ITPS Ltd.
> Cheriton House, North Way
> Andover, Hampshire
> SP 10 5BE, United Kingdom
> Email: info.journals@routledge.com
>
>SUBSCRIPTIONS - US
> Routledge Journals Department
> 29 West 35th Street
> New York, N.Y. 10001 - 2299
> Email: info.journals@routledge.com
>
>RETHINKING HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD: Linda J. Borish, Peter Burke, Jack R.
>Censer, Patrick Finney, Keith Jenkins, Harvey J. Kaye, Richard H. King,
>T.J. Jackson Lears, M.C. Lemon, Alan Megill, David D. Roberts, Dorothy
>Ross, Michael Roth, Ann-Louise Shapiro, Gabrielle Spiegel, Barbara L.
>Tischler, Garthine Walker, and Hayden White.
>
>RETHINKING HISTORY ADVISORY BOARD: Owen R. Ashton, Tony Badger, Crispin
>Bates, Robert F. Berkhofer, jr, Casey N. Blake, Christine Bolt, Pierre
>Bourdieu, David R. Carr, David Peters Corbett, Robert C. Darnton, Leonore
>Davidoff, Hasia Diner, John Dunne, Dennis Dworkin, Marc Ferro, Jonathan
>Gorman, Marybeth Hamilton, Joan Hoff, Katherine Jellison, Christopher A.
>Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent, James T. Kloppenberg, Dominick LaCapra, James
>Livingston, C. Behan McCullagh, A.J. Millard, Judie A. Newman, Griselda
>Pollock, Roy S. Porter, June Purvis, Mary C. Sies, Beverley Southgate, Susan
>C. Townsend, Marian Yeates, Joanna S. Zangrando.
>
>
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J. B. "Jack" Owens, Professor of History
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
e-mail: owenjack@fs.isu.edu
www: http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack
Note: new www URL, 12 July 1996.