Historiography: ancient, medieval & modern

by Breisach, Ernst

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Title Statements

Full title :Historiography : ancient, medieval & modern / Ernst Breisach.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 481 pages ): : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226072845, 0226072843
oclc:on1322309602
LC Classification:D13
Dewey Decimal:907/.2

1. The emergence of Greek historiography -- 2. The era of the Polis and its historians -- 3. Reaching the limits of Greek histoiography -- 4. Early Roman historiography, Myths, Greeks, and the Republic -- 5. Historians and the Republic's crisis -- 6. Perceptions of the past in Augustan and Imperial Rome -- 7. The christian historiographical revolution -- 8. The historiographical mastery of new peoples, states, and dynasties.

17. A first prefatory note to modern hyistoriography (1860-1914) -- 18. History and the quest for a uniform science -- 19. The discovery of economic dynamics -- 20. Historians encounter the masses -- 21. The problem of world history -- 22. A second prefatory note to modern historiography (since 1914) -- 23. Questions of historical truth -- the theoretical discussion -- 24. Two recent endeavors in "scientific" history -- 25. The fading of the paneconomic model -- 26. American and French interpretations of social history.

27. Redefinitions of two national historiographies -- 28. The enigma of world history -- Epilogue. Historiography at the new turn of centuries.