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• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Preface and Conventions
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Further Reading
• 1 The Earliest Forms of Historical Writing
• The Ancient Near East
• Jewish Historical Thought from the Tanakh to Josephus
• Early Greek Historiography
• Herodotus and Thucydides
• Greek Historiography from the Fourth to the Second Centuries
• Roman Historical Writing from Republic to Empire
• Chinese Historiography from Earliest Times to the Han Dynasty
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 2 History in Eurasia to the Mid-Fifteenth Century
• Historical Writing in Christian and Barbarian Europe
• Islamic Historiography from Muhammad to Ibn Khaldun
• Forms of History in Southern Asia
• Historiography in East Asia from the Tang to the Yuan
• The Age of the Chronicle: Historical Writing in Later Medieval Christendom
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 3 The Sense of the Past, 1450–1700
• Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Europe
• Chinese Historical Writing under the Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
• Early Modern Historiography in Islamic Asia and Africa
• New World Encounters 1: Europeans in Asia and the Americas
• New World Encounters 2: Indigenous Histories from the Americas
• New World Encounters 3: History in Early Colonial North America
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 4 Enlightenment, Revolution and Reaction, c. 1700–1830
• Eighteenth-Century European Historical Culture
• Philosophic History, Conjecture and Stadialism
• Historical Thought in the French Enlightenment: Voltaire, Condorcet and Rousseau
• The German Aufklärung
• East Asian Enlightenments
• Revolution, Romanticism and Historicism
• History in the Service of Nations
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 5 Disciplining the Past: Professionalization, Imperialism and Science, 1830–1945
• An Introductory Overview
• The Great Transformer: Ranke and His Influence
• The Institutions of History and the Beginnings of the ‘Profession’ in Europe and North America
• History, Science and Determinism
• The Cultural and Social Alternatives to Ranke
• Historiographical Imperialism? The Impact of Western Methods and Models Beyond the Eurosphere
• Women and the Historical Enterprise, 1800–1945
• A Crisis of Historicism? The Early Twentieth Century
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 6 Transitions: Historical Writing from the Inter-War Period to the Present
• The Annales Historians; Microhistory
• History and the Social Sciences
• History under Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes
• History from Below
• Varieties of Intellectual History
• From Women’s History to Histories of Gender and Sexuality
• Postwar African Historiography
• The Linguistic Turn: Postmodernism
• De-centring the West: Postcolonialism
• History Wars, Revisionism and the Problematic Relations of ‘Memory’ and ‘History’
• Conclusion
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• 7 Where Do We Go from Here? Reflections, New Directions and Prognostications
• Questions for Discussion
• Further Reading
• Glossary of Terms
• Index