Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : Beginnings -- East and West. Introduction / Paul Cartledge -- The evolution of two Asian historiographical traditions / David Morgan -- Historiography and the ancient Greek self-definition / Paul Cartledge -- Re-reading the Roman historians / Michael Comber -- The religion of Rome from Monarchy to Principate / J.A. North -- Late antiquity and the early medieval west / Peter Heather -- Modernizing the historiography of rural labour: an unwritten agenda / Jairus Banaji. Part II: The Medieval World. Introduction: Regarding medievalists: contexts and approaches / Julia M.H Smith -- The historiography of the medieval state / Susan Reynolds -- Saladin and the third crusade: a case study in historiography and the historical novel / Robert Irwin -- Family, gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages / Janet L. Nelson -- The medieval nobility in twentieth-century historiography / Timothy Reuter -- Medieval military historiography / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Popular religion in the central and later middle ages / Peter Biller.

Part III: Early modern historiography. Introductory survey: from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century / G.E. Aylmer -- The idea of early modern history / Wolfgang Reinhard -- The scientific revolution / Stephen Pumfrey -- The writing of early modern European intellectual history, 1945-1995 / D.R. Woolf -- The English Reformation, 1945-1995 / Patrick Collinson -- Popular culture in the early modern west / James Sharpe -- Revisionism in Britain / Ronald Hutton. Part IV: Reflecting on the modern age: Introduction: Approaches to modernity: western historiography since the enlightenment / Michael Bentley. Part IV: Revolution and ideology. Thehistoriography of the French revolution / Jacques Sole -- The Soviet revolution / Catherine Merridale -- The historiography of national socialism / Jane Caplan -- Modern Italy--changing historical perspectives since 1945 / John A. Davis -- The critique of orientalism / Ulrike Freitag -- IV. 2 Area studies. The historiography of modern China / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- The English-language historiography of modern Japan / Alan Smith -- Modern Indian historiography /C.A. Bayly -- History in Africa / David Birmingham -- Modern American historiography / Carl N. Degler -- Latin America / Alan Knight. Part V: Contexts for the writing of history. V.1 Hinterlands. Philosophy and historiography / William Dray -- History and anthropology / Jordan Goodman -- Archaeology and historiography / Guy Halsall -- The history of Western art history / Nigel Llewellyn -- V.2 Approaches. The historical narrative / Peter Munz -- The Annales experiment / George Huppert -- Marxist historiography / S.H. Rigby -- Women, gender and the Fin de Siecle / Olwen Hufton -- World history / R.I. Moore -- Archives, the historian and the future / Michael Moss.

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