In this innovative volume, Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke examines thenature of the so-called 'new history'. In conversation with nineleading scholars associated with the movement, Pallares-Burkeinvestigates the new approaches to the writing of history. In aseries of interviews, Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, Robert Darnton,Carlo Ginzburg, Jack Goody, Daniel Roche, Quentin Skinner, KeithThomas and Natalie Zemon Davis are questioned about their majorworks and their relation to other key historians and theorists. Urging each historian to justify their methods and to reflect ontheir intellectual trajectory, (...) Pallares-Burke tries to makeexplicit the experiences and ideas that are otherwise implicit inthe historian's work. The interviews probe the historians' personaland intellectual background and offer fresh insight into thepossibilities, problems and preoccupations of contemporaryhistorical practice. The result is a lively and illuminating bookthat will appeal to both students and scholars. (shrink)