Deconstructing History (Routledge, 1997).

See Deborah Lipstadt,

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Penguin, 1993) to get an idea of the consequences of a postmodern approach to history writing.

The 'witch’ example is from Richard J. Evans,

In Defence of History (Granta, 1997) 218f., reporting Diane Purkiss,

The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth Century Representations (Routledge, 1996), pp. 66-8.

Bruno Latour’s comments on Einstein’s relativity theory can be found in Noretta Koertge (ed.),

A House Built on Sand (Oxford University Press, 2000), 12 and 181ff.

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont refute the postmodernist 'attack on science’ in their

Intellectual Impostures (Profile, 1998).

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