Historiography: ancient, medieval, & modern

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography.

1. The emergence of Greek historiography -- The timeless past of gods and heroes -- Discovering a past of human dimensions -- 2. The Era of the Polis and its historians -- The new history of the Polis -- The decline of the Polis: the loss of focus -- 3. Reaching the limits of Greek historiography -- The history of a special decade -- Hellenistic historiography: beyond the confines ofthe Polis -- The problem of new regions and people -- 4. Early Roman historiography myths, Greeks, and the Republic -- An early past dimly perceived -- The Roman past and Greek learning -- Greco-Roman history writing: triumph and a Latin response -- 5. Historians and the Republic's crisis -- History as inspiration and structural analysis -- History divorced from Rome's fate -- 6. Perceptions of the past in Augustan and Imperial Rome -- History writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus -- Historians and the Empire -- 7. The Christian historiographical revolution -- The formulation of Early Christian historiography -- The problem of continuity in an age of upheaval -- The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon consolidation is historiography -- 8. The historiographical mastery of new peoples, states, and dynasties -- I…