Table of Contents 1. Truth, myth, and history: Mythistory, or truth, myth, history, and historians -- The care and repair of public myth -- The rise of the West as a long-term process -- 2. The need for world history: A defense of world history -- Beyond Western civilization: rebuilding the survey -- 3. Masters of the historical craft: Lord Acton -- Basic assumptions of Toynbee's A study of history -- Historians I have known: Carl Becker -- Historians I have known: Arnold J. Toynbee -- Historians I have known: Fernand Braudel.