Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The Timeless Past of Gods and Heroes......Page 18
Discovering a Past of Human Dimensions......Page 21
The New History of the Polis......Page 25
The Decline of the Polis: The Loss of Focus......Page 34
The History of a Special Decade......Page 40
Hellenistic Historiography: Beyond the Confines of the Polis......Page 43
The Problem of New Regions and People......Page 47
An Early Past Dimly Perceived......Page 53
The Roman Past and Greek Learning......Page 56
Greco-Roman History Writing: Triumph and a Latin Response......Page 58
History as Inspiration and Structural Analysis......Page 65
History Divorced from Rome's Fate......Page 69
History Writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus......Page 73
Historians and the Empire......Page 78
The Formulation of Early Christian Historiography......Page 90
The Problem of Continuity in an Age of Upheaval......Page 101
The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Consolidation in Historiography......Page 110
Integrating Peoples into Latin Historiography......Page 120
Legitimizing New States and Dynasties......Page 125
The Last Synthesis of Empire and Christianity......Page 134
The Persistence of Christian Themes......Page 138
Histories of a Grand and Holy Venture: The Crusades......Page 145
The Search for Developmental Patterns......Page 151
Transformations of the Chronicle......Page 157
The Italian Renaissance Historians......Page 166
Humanist Revisionism Outside of Italy......Page 175
The Collapse of Spiritual Unity......Page 179
The Blending of Theoretical and Patriotic Answers......Page 184
Universal History: A Troubled Tradition......Page 190
Historians, the New Politics, and New Perceptions of the World......Page 198
The Origin and Early Forms of American History......Page 208
The Reassessment of Historical Order and Truth......Page 212
New Views on Historical Truth......Page 214
New Grand Interpretations: Progress in History......Page 218
New Grand Interpretations: The Cyclical Pattern......Page 223
The British Blend of Erudition, Elegance, and Empiricism......Page 228
Enlightenment Historiography in a German Key......Page 230
Recording the Birth of the American Nation......Page 237
·15 ·Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-I......Page 241
German Historians: The Causes of Truth and National Unity......Page 242
France: Historians, the Nation, and Liberty......Page 251
English Historiography in the Age of Revolution......Page 261
Historians and the Building of the American Nation......Page 268
Historiography's "Golden Age"......Page 274
·17 ·A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (1860-1914)......Page 281
Comte's Call to Arms and the Response......Page 285
The German and English Responses to Positivist Challenges......Page 291
The Peculiar American Synthesis......Page 299
An Economic Perspective on the Past......Page 304
Karl Marx: Paneconornic Historiography......Page 306
Economic History after Marx......Page 310
Jubilant and Dark Visions......Page 316
Social History as Institutional History......Page 319
The American "New History": Call for a Democratic History......Page 326
·21 ·The Problem of World History......Page 332
·22·A Second Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (since 1914)......Page 336
The New Positivism and the Theory of History......Page 340
Autonomous History and Its Theories......Page 342
History in the Language of Numbers......Page 351
Psychohistory: A Promise and Many Problems......Page 355
Marxist Historiography: Ultimate Meaning or Another Method?......Page 362
Reshaping Economic History......Page 369
American Progressive History......Page 375
The Annales School......Page 383
·27 ·Redefinitions of Two National Historiographies......Page 390
The Transformation of German Historiography......Page 391
Historiography as a Mirror of Postwar America......Page 398
Progress and Westernization......Page 408
The Multiple Cultures Model......Page 410
World System Theories......Page 413
Epilogue: Historiography at the New Tum of Centuries......Page 417
Notes......Page 424
List of Abbreviations......Page 436
Bibliography......Page 438
Index of Persons and Anonymous Works......Page 472
Index of Subjects......Page 488