by Historiography: Ancient ,Medieval and Modern/ by Ernst Breisach

By:

Breisach,Ernst

Material type: Text

TextEdition: 3rd edDescription: xiv, 503 pages : illu. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226072838

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

907.2 BRE.H

Contents:

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-I-- 16. Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-II-- 17 .A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (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. Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918-39)-- 23 .History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918-39)-- 24 .Historiography and the Grand Ideologies-- 25. American Historiography after 1945-- 26 History in the Scientific Mode-- 27. Transformations in English and French Historiography-- 28 .Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Unionand Western Democracies-- 29. Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism-- 30. World History Between Vision and Reality-- 31. Recent Historiography: Fundamental Challenges and Their Aftermath; Notes-- List of Abbreviation

Summary: In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of History	Dept. of History	Prof.Kusuman Collection	907.2 BRE.H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		HISKUS257

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-I--
16. Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-II--
17 .A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (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. Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918-39)--
23 .History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918-39)--
24 .Historiography and the Grand Ideologies--
25. American Historiography after 1945--
26 History in the Scientific Mode--
27. Transformations in English and French Historiography--
28 .Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Unionand Western Democracies--
29. Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism--
30. World History Between Vision and Reality--
31. Recent Historiography: Fundamental Challenges and Their Aftermath; Notes--
List of Abbreviation

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography.

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