History. Theory. and. Studies in the Philosophy of History WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY VOLUME 40 NUMBER

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1 History and Theory Studies in the Philosophy of History VOLUME 40 NUMBER WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

2 History and Theory publishes articles, review essays, and summaries of books principally in these areas: critical philosophy of history, cause, explanation, interpretation, objectivity; speculative philosophy of history, comparative and global history; historiography, theoretical dimensions of historians debates; history of historiography, theory and practice of past historians and philosophers of history; historical methodology, examination of texts and other evidence, narrativism, stylistics; critical theory, Marxism, deconstruction, gender theory, psychoanalysis; time and culture, conceptions of humanity-in-time; related disciplines, interactions between history and the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and psychology. Editorial Committee: F. R. ANKERSMIT Groningen ARTHUR DANTO Columbia WILLIAM H. DRAY Ottawa E. H. GOMBRICH London JONATHAN GORMAN Belfast GEORG IGGERS Buffalo/Göttingen REINHART KOSELLECK Bielefeld WILLIAM MCNEILL Connecticut WOLFGANG MOMMSEN Düsseldorf NANCY PARTNER McGill JOHN PASSMORE Canberra JÖRN RÜSEN Essen JOAN SCOTT Princeton HAYDEN WHITE Santa Cruz Editors: Executive Editor: BRIAN C. FAY Senior Editor: RICHARD T. VANN Associate Editors: PHILIP POMPER, ANN-LOUISE SHAPIRO, DAVID GARY SHAW Consulting Editors: RICHARD V. BUEL, RICHARD H. ELPHICK Administrative Editor: JULIA PERKINS

3 History and Theory (ISSN ) is published quarterly in February, May, October, and December by Blackwell Publishers, with offices at 350 Main St., Malden, MA and 108 Cowley Rd., Oxford OX4 1JF, UK. Call U.S. toll-free or ; Fax: ; Please visit us online at To accommodate a variety of contributions irrespective of length, individual issues vary in size. Each annual volume consists of four numbers; the fourth number is usually in the form of a Theme Issue. History and Theory assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed by contributors. Editorial Correspondence and Contributions: Julia Perkins, Administrative Editor, History and Theory, Wesleyan Station, Middletown, CT , USA; jperkins@wesleyan.edu. Manuscripts should conform to the History and Theory Style Sheet, sent on request. Also available at: Information for Subscribers: New orders, renewals, sample copy requests, claims, change of address information, and all other correspondence should be sent to the Subscriber Services Coordinator at the publisher s Malden address. Subscription rate for Volume 40, 2001: The Americas UK/Rest of World Institutions $90 63 or $90 Individuals $39 28 or $40 Students $23 18 or $26 Single issue rates: Institutions $27 19 or $27 Individuals $12 9 or $13 Checks should be made payable to Blackwell Publishers. Checks in US dollars must be drawn on a US bank; checks in Sterling must be drawn on a UK bank. All orders must be paid with personal check, money order, or credit card. Only personal orders may be paid by personal check. Canadian residents please add 7% GST. Students must provide proof of status along with payment. Mailing. The journal is mailed via periodicals class in N. America and by IMEX to the rest of the world. Postmaster. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, MA, and additional mailing offices. Send all address corrections to Blackwell Publishers, Subscriber Services Coordinator, 350 Main St., Malden, MA Electronic Access. Abstract information for this journal is electronically available at For information on full-text access, see Back Issues. Back issues are available from the publisher s Malden address at the current single issue rate. Advertising. For information and rates please contact Publishers Communication Group, telephone: ; fax: ; or sabine.mourlon@pcgplus.com. Microform. The journal is available on microfilm from the first issue. Address inquiries to UMI, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI Indexed/Abstracted in: Academic Abstracts; Academic Search; America: History and Life; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Current Contents: Arts & Humanities; Expanded Academic Index; General Periodicals Ondisc/Newspaper Periodical Abstracts; Humanities Index; Humanities Source; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; MasterFile; OCLC; Philosopher s Index; Social Planning, Policy & Development Abstracts; Social Sciences Citation Index; Sociological Abstracts. Copyright. All rights reserved. Reproduction, storage, or transmission of this work in any form or by any means beyond that permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the US Copyright Law is unlawful without prior permission in writing of the publisher or in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) and other organizations authorized by the publisher to administer reprographic reproduction rights. Please note, however, that all institutions with a paid subscription to this journal may make photocopies for teaching purposes free of charge provided such copies are not resold. For educational photocopying requests that do not originate from an institution with a paid subscription, please contact the CCC, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, telephone: , fax: For all other permission inquiries, including requests to republish material in another work, please contact the Journals Permissions Manager at the publisher s Oxford office, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK, telephone , fax Manufactured in U.S.A. L.C. Number Copyright 2001 by Wesleyan University

4 BACK ISSUES AND COMPLETE RUNS OF History and Theory ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE PUBLISHER The titles and numbers of the Theme Issues (formerly Beihefte) published through 2000 are: Beiheft 1: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 2: Towards an Historiography of Science Beiheft 3: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 4: Craig s Rules of Historical Evidence, from Johannis Craig: Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica Beiheft 5: The Historiography of the History of Philosophy Beiheft 6: History and the Concept of Time Beiheft 7: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Bibliography of Signed Works by Elie Halévy Beiheft 8: On Method in the History of Religions Beiheft 9: Studies in Quantitative History and the Logic of the Social Sciences Beiheft 10: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 11: Enlightenment Historiography: Three German Studies Beiheft 12: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 13: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 14: Essays on Historicism Beiheft 15: Augustin Thierry and Liberal Historiography Beiheft 16: The Constitution of the Historical Past Beiheft 17: Historical Consciousness and Political Action Beiheft 18: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 19: Metahistory: Six Critiques Beiheft 20: Studies in Marxist Historical Theory Beiheft 21: New Paths of Classicism in the Nineteenth Century Beiheft 22: The Philosophy of History Teaching Beiheft 23: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 24: A Bibliography of the Publications and Manuscripts of R. G. Collingwood, with Selective Annotation Beiheft 25: Knowing and Telling History: The Anglo Saxon Debate Beiheft 26: The Representation of Historical Events Beiheft 27 : Essays in Jewish Historiography Beiheft 28: Bibliography of Works in the Philosophy of History, Beiheft 29: Reassessing Collingwood Beiheft 30: The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano Beiheft 31: History and Feminist Theory Beiheft 32: History Making in Africa Theme Issue 33: Proof and Persuasion in History Theme Issue 34: World Historians and Their Critics Theme Issue 35: Chinese Historiography in Comparative Perspective Theme Issue 36: Producing the Past: Making Histories Inside and Outside the Academy Theme Issue 37: Danto and His Critics: Art History, Historiography, and After the End of Art Theme Issue 38: The Return of Science: Evolutionary Ideas and History Theme Issue 39: Not Telling: Secrecy, Lies, and History WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Middletown, Connecticut 06459, U.S.A.

5 History and Theory Studies in the Philosophy of History THEME ISSUE 40 Agency after Postmodernism Edited by DAVID GARY SHAW WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

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