A Global History of History
ISBN: 9780521699082 | 0521699088
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 3/21/2011
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A global history of historical writing and thought from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past. Numerous extracts and illustrations demonstrate the different forms that historical consciousness has taken and history's development into a modern discipline.
An illustrated survey of global historical scholarship from the ancient world to the present, for courses in theory and historiography.
An illustrated survey of global historical scholarship from the ancient world to the present, for courses in theory and historiography.
| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| List of text extracts | p. xiv |
| List of subject boxes | p. xvi |
| Preface and conventions | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Foundations | p. 23 |
| History during the First Millennium AD | p. 75 |
| An Age of Global Violence, c. 1000 to c. 1450 | p. 119 |
| History in the Early Modern Empire... MORE | p. 177 |
| Transatlantic Histories: Contact, conquest and cultural exchange 1450-1800 | p. 233 |
| Progress and History in the Eurasian Enlightenments | p. 281 |
| The Broken Mirror: Nationalism, romanticism and professionalization in the nineteenth-century West | p. 345 |
| Clio's Empire: European historiography in Asia, the Americas and Africa | p. 399 |
| Babel's Tower? History in the Twentieth Century | p. 457 |
| Epilogue | p. 509 |
| Further reading | p. 515 |
| Index | p. 553 |
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Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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