Abstract
A comprehensive history of historiography from the Greeks to the late 1970s. He discusses the historiographical contributions of Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Varro, Eusebius, Jules Michelet, and George Bancroft, among many others. With over 400 closely packed pages of text, it is rather difficult to read from cover to cover, but is worth dipping into for its summary accounts of specific topics. (am)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
1
The Emergence of Greek Historiography
2
The Era of the Polis and Its Historians
3
Reaching the Limits of Greek Historiography
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
9
Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth
10
Historiography’s Adjustment to Accelerating Change
11
Two Turning Points: The Renaissance and The Reformation
12
The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography
13
The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a New Historiography
14
Three National Responses
15
Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—1
16
Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—2
17
A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography
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
Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918–39)
The Twentieth-Century Context
Challenges to Historians
Historicism: From Dominance to Crisis
Historians and the War Guilt Debate
23
History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918–39)
American Historiography after the “Great War”
England: Historiography in a Fading Empire
French Historians: The Revolutionary Tradition and a New Vision of the Past
24
Historiography and the Grand Ideologies
Italian Fascism and historiography (1922–43)
German Historians in the Weimar Republic and Hitler’s Reich
The Soviet Union: The Imagined Future as the Guide for History
25
American Historiography after 1945
New Realities and Traditional Horizons
Historical Repercussions of America’s New Status
Historiography as Call for Reform
26
History in the Scientific Mode
History in the Language of Numbers
Reshaping Economic History
Growing Dissent: Narrativism
Psychohistory: Promise and Problems
27
Transformations in English and French Historiography
Voices in the War Guilt Debate
History Writing in Post-imperial England
Traditional and New French Historical Perspectives
28
Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Union and Western Democracies
The Problems and the End of the Soviet Union’s Marxism
Marxist Historical Theory in the West
29
Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism
Historical Perspectives in Post-war Italy
History for and of a New Germany
30
World History Between Vision and Reality
The Multiple Cultures Model
Progress and Westernization
World System Theories
31
Historiography, Postmodernity and Prospects
Historiographical Adjustments to a Turbulent Context
History and Visions of a Postmodern Future
The New Cultural History
Prospects
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
1
The Emergence of Greek Historiography
2
The Era of the Polis and Its Historians
3
Reaching the Limits of Greek Historiography
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
9
Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth
10
Historiography’s Adjustment to Accelerating Change
11
Two Turning Points: The Renaissance and The Reformation
12
The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography
13
The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a New Historiography
14
Three National Responses
15
Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—1
16
Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—2
17
A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography
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
Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918–39)
The Twentieth-Century Context
Challenges to Historians
Historicism: From Dominance to Crisis
Historians and the War Guilt Debate
23
History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918–39)
American Historiography after the “Great War”
England: Historiography in a Fading Empire
French Historians: The Revolutionary Tradition and a New Vision of the Past
24
Historiography and the Grand Ideologies
Italian Fascism and historiography (1922–43)
German Historians in the Weimar Republic and Hitler’s Reich
The Soviet Union: The Imagined Future as the Guide for History
25
American Historiography after 1945
New Realities and Traditional Horizons
Historical Repercussions of America’s New Status
Historiography as Call for Reform
26
History in the Scientific Mode
History in the Language of Numbers
Reshaping Economic History
Growing Dissent: Narrativism
Psychohistory: Promise and Problems
27
Transformations in English and French Historiography
Voices in the War Guilt Debate
History Writing in Post-imperial England
Traditional and New French Historical Perspectives
28
Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Union and Western Democracies
The Problems and the End of the Soviet Union’s Marxism
Marxist Historical Theory in the West
29
Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism
Historical Perspectives in Post-war Italy
History for and of a New Germany
30
World History Between Vision and Reality
The Multiple Cultures Model
Progress and Westernization
World System Theories
31
Historiography, Postmodernity and Prospects
Historiographical Adjustments to a Turbulent Context
History and Visions of a Postmodern Future
The New Cultural History
Prospects