Chiefly, selected papers of a conference entitled "Dissolving boundaries; historical writing towards the third millennium" held 1997 at the University of Warwick.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The places of the dead in modernity / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Jumonville's death: war propaganda and national identity in eighteenth-century France / David A. Bell -- Pacific modernity: theater, Englishness, and the arts of discovery, 1760-1800 / Kathleen Wilson -- The new social history in France / Gareth Stedman Jones -- The social imaginary of the French Revolution: the Third Estate, the National Guard, and the absent bourgeoisie / Sarah Maza -- Service and servitude in the world of labor: servants in England, 1750-1820 / Carolyn Steedman -- Moving accidents: the emergence of sentimental probability / James Chandler -- The secret history of domesticity: private, public, and the division of knowledge / Michael McKeon -- The cultural contradictions of feminism in the French Revolution / Carla Hesse -- Misogyny and feminism: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara Taylor -- Parallel stages: theatrical and political representation in early modern and revolutionary France / Paul Friedland -- On queen bees and being queens: a late-eighteenth-century "cultural revolution"? / Dror Wahrman