A concise history of history : global historiography from antiquity to the present /
This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The earliest forms of historical writing
- 2. History in Eurasia to the mid-fifteenth century
- 3. The sense of the past, 1450-1700
- 4. Enlightenment, revolution and reaction, c.1700-1830
- 5. Disciplining the past : professionalization, imperialism and science, 1830-1945
- 6. Transitions : historical writing from the inter-war period to the present
- 7. Where do we go from here? Reflections, new directions and prognostications.