A History of Histories  9974

• Introduction: A History of Histories?
• Prologue: Keeping Records and Making Accounts: Egypt and Babylon

Part I: Greece
[rtoc]

1. Herodotus: The Great Invasion and the Historian’s Task
2. Thucydides: The Polis – the Use of Abuse of Power
3. The Greeks in Asia
   • Xenophon: The Persian Expedition
   • The Alexander Historians: Arrian and Curtius Rufus

[/rtoc]
Part II: Rome
[rtoc]

4. Polybius: Universal History, Pragmatic History and the Rise of Rome
5. Sallust: A City for Sale
6. Livy: From the Foundation of the City
7. Civil War and the Road to Autocracy: Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio
8. Tacitus: ‘Men fit to be slaves’
9. A Provincial Perspective: Josephus on the Jewish Revolt
10. Ammianus Marcellinus: The Last Pagan Historian
11. General Characteristics of Ancient Historiography

[/rtoc]
Part III: Christendom
[rtoc]

12. The Bible and History: The People of God
13. Eusebius: The Making of Orthodoxy and the Church Triumphant
14. Gregory of Tours: Kings, Bishops and Others
15. Bede: The English Church and the English People

[/rtoc]
Part IV: The Revival of Secular History
[rtoc]

16. Annals, Chronicles and History
    • Annals and Chronicles
    • Pseudo-History: Geoffrey of Monmouth
    • Secular History and Chronicle: William of Malmesbury’s Modern History and the Scurrilities of Matthew Paris
    • Two Abbey Chronicles: St Albans and Bury St Edmunds
17. Crusader History and Chivalric History: Villehardouin and Froissart
    • Villehardouin’s The Conquest of Constantinople
    • Froissart: ‘Matters of great renown’
18. From Civic Chronicle to Humanist History: Villani, Machiavelli and Guicciardini

[/rtoc]
Part V: Studying the Past
[rtoc]

19. Antiquarianism, Legal History and the Discovery of Feudalism
20. Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion: The Wilfulness of Particular Men
21. Philosophic History
    • Hume: Enthusiasm and Regicide
    • Robertson: ‘The State of Society’ and the Idea of Europe
    • Gibbon: Rome, Barbarism and Civilisation
22. Revolutions: England and France
    • Macaulay: The Glorious Revolution
    • Carlyle’s French Revolution: History with a Hundred Tongues
    • Michelet and Taine: The People and the Mob
23. History as the Story of Freedom: Constitutional Liberty and Individual Autonomy
    • Stubb’s Constitutional History: From Township to Parliament
    • Modernity’s First-born Son: Burckhardt’s Renaissance Man
24. A New World: American Experiences
    • The Halls of Montezuma: Díaz, Prescott and the Conquest of New Spain
    • Outposts in the Wilderness: Parkman’s History of the Great West
    • Henry Adams: From Republic to Nation
25. A Professional Consensus: The German Influence
    • Professionalisation
    • German Historicism: Ranke, God and Machiavelli
    • Not Quite a Copernican Revolution
26. The Twentieth Century
    • Professionalism and teh Critique of ‘Whig History’, History as a Science and History as an Art
    • ‘Structures’: Cultural History and the Annales School
    • Marxism: The Last Grand Narrative?
    • Anthropology and History: Languages and Paradigms
    • Suppressed Identities and Global Perspectives: World History and Micro-History

[/rtoc]

Array
(
    [_edit_last] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
        )

    [_edit_lock] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1653294436:1
        )

    [subtitle] => Array
        (
            [0] => Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
        )

    [ISBN] => Array
        (
            [0] => 9780713993370
        )

    [ASIN] => Array
        (
            [0] => 713993375
        )

    [_last_editor_used_jetpack] => Array
        (
            [0] => classic-editor
        )

    [shop] => Array
        (
            [0] => "28380"||£15.00
        )

    [site-sidebar-layout] => Array
        (
            [0] => default
        )

    [site-content-layout] => Array
        (
            [0] => default
        )

    [theme-transparent-header-meta] => Array
        (
            [0] => default
        )

    [stick-header-meta] => Array
        (
            [0] => default
        )

)