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.
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2002.
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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.