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Turning points in historiography : a cross-cultural perspective /

Examining turning points in historical thought in a variety of cultures, the essays here deal with reorientations in historical thinking in the pre-modern period since antiquity, mainly in ancient Greece and China and in medieval Christian Europe.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wang, Q. Edward, 1958-, Iggers, Georg G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2002.
Colección:Rochester studies in historiography.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I:
  • The invention of history: from Homer to Herodotus / François Hartog
  • The Ch'in Unification (221 B.C.) in Chinese historiography / Chun-Chieh Huang
  • From ancient to medieval historical thinking / Ernst Breisach
  • New directions in northern Sung historical thinking (960-1126) / Thomas H.C. Lee
  • Turning points in Islamic historical practice / R. Stephen Humphreys
  • The historicization of classical leaning in Ming-Ch'ing China / Benjamin A. Elman
  • PART II:
  • Conceptions of scientific history in the nineteenth-century West / Eckhardt Fuchs
  • National histories and world systems: writing Japan, France, and the United States / Christopher L. Hill
  • China's search for national history / Q. Edward Wang
  • National and African historiography / Toyin Falola
  • The subaltern school and the ascendancy of Indian history / Vinay Lal
  • A critique of the postmodern turn in Western historiography / Keith Windschuttle
  • Postmodernism and Chinese history / Arif Dirlik
  • Postscript / Richard T. Vann.