Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3rd ed.

by Ernst Breisach

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

, 2007

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography
• Presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture

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—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)
• 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 Union and Western Democracies
• 29 Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism
• 30 World History Between Vision and Reality
• 31 Recent Historiography: Fundamental Challenges and Their Aftermath

Praise for Historiography

Breisach’s comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.

—Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review

Product Details

• Title: Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3rd ed.
• Author: Ernst Breisach
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 500
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Resource ID: LLS:HSTRGRPHYNCMDRN
• Resource Type: text.monograph.handbook
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-17T18:06:01Z

About Ernst Breisach

Ernst Breisach is professor emeritus of history at Western Michigan University and the author of several books, including American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization and On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath, both published by the University of Chicago Press.