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Historiography: ancient, medieval & modern
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
1. The emergence of Greek historiography
The timeless past of gods and heroes
Discovering a past of human dimensions
2. The Era of the Polis and its historians
The new history of the Polis
The decline of the Polis: the loss of focus
3. Reaching the limits of Greek historiography
The history of a special decade
Hellenistic historiography: beyond the confines ofthe Polis
The problem of new regions and people
4. Early Roman historiography myths, Greeks, and the Republic
An early past dimly perceived
The Roman past and Greek learning
Greco-Roman history writing: triumph and a Latin response
5. Historians and the Republic's crisis
History as inspiration and structural analysis
History divorced from Rome's fate
6. Perceptions of the past in Augustan and Imperial Rome
History writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus
Historians and the Empire
7. The Christian historiographical revolution
The formulation of Early Christian historiography
The problem of continuity in an age of upheaval
The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon consolidation is historiography
8. The historiographical mastery of new peoples, states, and dynasties
Integrating peoples into Latin historiography
Legitimizing new states and dynasties
9. Historians and the ideal of the Christian commonwealth
The last synthesis of Empire and Christianity
The persistence of Christian themes
Histories of a grand and holy venture: the Crusades
10. Historiography's adjustment to accelerating change
The search for developmental patterns
Transformations of the chronicle
11. Two turning points the Renaissance and the Reformation
The Italian Renaissance historians
Humanist Revisionism outside of Italy
The collapse of spiritual unity
12. The continuing modification of traditional historiography
The blending of theoretical and patriotic answers
Universal history: a troubled tradition
Historians, the new politics, and new perceptions of the world
The origin and early forms of American history
13. The eighteenth-century quest for a new historiography
The reassessment of historical order and truth
New views on historical truth
New grand interpretations: progress in history
New grand interpretations: the cyclical pattern
14. Three national responses
The British blend of erudition, elegance, and Empiricism
Enlightenment historiography in a German key
Recording the birth of the American nation
15. Historians as Interpreters of progess and nation: I
German historians: the cause of truth and national unity
France: historians, the nation, and liberty
16. Historians as Interpreters of progess and nation: II
English historiography in the Age of Revolution
Historians and the building of the American nation
Historiography's "Golden Age"
17. A first prefatory note to Modern historiography (1860-1914)
18. History and the quest for a uniform science
Comte's call to arms and the response
The German and English responses to Positivist challenges
The peculiar American synthesis
19. The discovery of economic dynamics
An economic perspective on the past
Karl Max: paneconomic historiography
Economic history after Marx
20. Historians encounter the Masses
Jubilant and dark visions
Social history as institutional history
The American "New History"; call for a democratic history
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"
American progressive history
Other social histories
England: historiography in a fading Empire
French historians: the revolutionary tradition and a new vision of the past
24. Historiography and the grand ideoligies
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
Historiographical reprecussions 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 Postwar 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. Recent historiography: fundamental challenges and their aftermath
The maturation of the new history
History and two visions of Postmodernity
The new cultural history
Prospects.
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