Historiography : ancient, medieval & modern
A concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. This updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of the discipline from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, examining recent developments in black history, deconstructionism, postmodernism, women's history, and more.
Print Book, English, 1994
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
xii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226072784, 9780226072753, 0226072789, 0226072754
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1. The emergence of Greek historiography
2. The era of the Polis and its historians
3. Reaching the limits of Greek histoiography
4. Early Roman historiography, Myths, Greeks, and the Republic
5. Historians and the Republic's crisis
6. Perceptions of the past in Augustan and Imperial Rome
7. The christian historiographical revolution
8. The historiographical mastery of new peoples, states, and dynasties. 17. A first prefatory note to modern hyistoriography (1860-1914)
18. History and the quest for a uniform science
19. The discovery of economic dynamics
20. Historians encounter the masses
21. The problem of world history
22. A second prefatory note to modern historiography (since 1914)
23. Questions of historical truth
the theoretical discussion
24. Two recent endeavors in "scientific" history
25. The fading of the paneconomic model
26. American and French interpretations of social history. 27. Redefinitions of two national historiographies
28. The enigma of world history
Epilogue. Historiography at the new turn of centuries