Daniel Woolf ( Professor of History and Principal and Vice-Chancell

A Global History of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1160g
• ISBN-13: 9780521699082
• ISBN-10: 0521699088
• Artikelnr.: 32205441

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

'This is the first comprehensive one-volume history of historical writing from earliest times to the present. Its strength lies in its broad intercultural approach. It is very readable and I recommend it highly as a text in courses and seminars in historiography and comparative intellectual history.' Georg G. Iggers, State University of New York, Buffalo