<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Introduction : on fidelity and diversity / Keith Jenkins, Sue Morgan and Alun Munslow -- Space for the bird to fly / Robert A. Rosenstone -- History-writing as critique / Joan W. Scott -- Manifesto for a history of the media / Mark Poster -- The closed space of choice : a manifesto on the future of history / Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth -- 'Humani nil alienum' : the quest for 'human nature' / Beverley Southgate -- History and the politics of recognition / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The gift of the past : towards a critical history / Patrick Joyce -- Performing cross-culturally / Greg Dening -- Historical fiction and the future of academic history / David Harlan -- Alternate worlds and invented communities : history and historical consciousness in the age of interactive media / Wulf Kansteiner -- Being an improper historian / Ann Rigney -- Resisting apocalypse and rethinking history / Dominick Lacapra -- Manifesto for an analytical political history / Frank Ankersmit -- Historiographical criticism : a manifesto / Ewa Domanska -- The past of the future : from the foreign to the undiscovered country / David Lowenthal -- Afterword : manifesto time / Hayden White.