A global history of history
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A global history of history
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of different genres and forms of history and addresses key themes such as the interactions between West and East, the conflict of oral, pictographic, and written accounts of the past and the place of history in society and in politics. Numerous textual extracts and illustrations in every chapter capture the historical cultures of past civilizations and demonstrate the different forms that historical consciousness has taken around the world. The book offers unique insights into the interconnections between different historical cultures over 3000 years and relates the rise of history to key themes in world history.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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