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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His previous publications include Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and the two-volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998). He is also general editor of the Oxford History of Historical Writing (2010 onwards). Klappentext An illustrated survey of global historical scholarship from the ancient world to the present, for courses in theory and historiography. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Foundations; 2. History during the first millennium AD; 3. An age of global violence, c.1000 to c.1450; 4. History in the early modern empires: Europe, China, Islam; 5. Transatlantic histories: contact, conquest and cultural exchange 1450-1800; 6. Progress and history in the Eurasian Enlightenments; 7. The broken mirror: nationalism, romanticism and professionalization in the nineteenth-century West; 8. Clio's empire: European historiography in Asia, the Americas and Africa; 9. Babel's tower: history in the twentieth century; Epilogue.
