Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226072835
ISBN-13: 9780226072838
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 in...