A history of histories: epics, chronicles, romances and inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the twentieth century
An analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, looks at the work of individual historians and how they presented the past in terms of their perspectives, beliefs, and historical periods.
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction: A History of Histories?
xiii
PROLOGUE
Keeping Records and Making Accounts: Egypt and Babylon
3
part
ι
—
Greece
ι
Herodotus: The Great Invasion and the Historian s Task
1
3
2
Thucydides: The
Polis
—
the Use and Abuse of Power
30
3
The Greeks in Asia
51
Xenophon: The Persian Expedition
51
The Alexander Historians:
Arrian
and
Curtius
Rufus
57
part
11 —
Rome
4
Polybius: Universal History, Pragmatic History
and the Rise of Rome
65
5
Sallust: A City for Sale
80
β
Livy: From the Foundation of the City
90
7
Civil War and the Road to Autocracy: Plutarch,
Appian and Cassius
Dio ni
8
Tacitus: Men fit to be slaves
122
9
A Provincial Perspective: Josephus on the Jewish Revolt
141
vi
Contents
10 Ammianus
Marcellinus:
The Last Pagan Historian
149
11
General Characteristics of Ancient Historiography
158
part
111 —
Christendom
12
The Bible and History: The People of God
169
із
Eusebius: The Making of Orthodoxy and the
Church Triumphant
і у
8
14
Gregory of Tours: Kings, Bishops and Others
187
15
Bede:
The English Church and the English People
202
part
iv —
The Revival of Secular History
ie
Annals, Chronicles and History
217
Annals and Chronicles
217
Pseudo-History: Geoffrey of Monmouth
220
Secular History and Chronicle: William of
Malmesbury s Modern History and the Scurrilities
of Matthew Paris
226
Two Abbey Chronicles: St. Albans and Bury St. Edmunds
235
17
Crusader History and Chivalric History: ViUehardouin and
Froissait
244
Villehardouin s The Conquest of Constantinople
244
Froissart: Matters of great renown
249
is From Civic Chronicle to Humanist History:
Villani, Machiavelli
and Guicciardini
259
part
v
—
Studying the Past
19
Antiquarianism, Legal History and the
Discovery of Feudalism
283
20
Clarendon s History of the Rebellion:
The Wilralness of Particular Men
302
21
Philosophic History
313
Hume: Enthusiasm and Regicide
313
Robertson: The State of Society and the
Idea of Europe
320
Gibbon: Rome, Barbarism and Civilization
332
Contents
vii
22
Revolutions: England and France
345
Macaulay: The Glorious Revolution
345
Carlyle s French Revolution: History with a
Hundreďlbngues
354
Michelet and
Taine:
The People and the Mob
365
23
History as the Story of Freedom: Constitutional Liberty
and Individual Autonomy
3 80
Stubbs s Constitutional History: From Township to
Parliament
380
Modernity s First-born Son:
Burckhardťs
Renaissance Man
388
24
A New World: American Experiences
397
The Halls of Montezuma: Diaz, Prescott and the
Conquest of New Spain
397
Outposts in the Wilderness: Parkman s History of
the Great West
406
Henry Adams
:
From Republic to Nation
414
25
A Professional Consensus: The German Influence
425
Professionalization
425
German Historicism:
Ranke, God
and
Machiavelli
428
Not Quite a Copernican Revolution
43 3
26
The Twentieth Century
438
Professionalism and the Critique of Whig History :
History as a Science and History as an Art
438
Structures : Cultural History and the
Annales
School
448
Marxism: The Last Grand Narrative?
45 5
Anthropology and History: Languages and Paradigms
462
Suppressed Identities and Global Perspectives:
World History and Micro-History
468
Select Bibliography
48 7
Index 5O1
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction: A History of Histories?
xiii
PROLOGUE
Keeping Records and Making Accounts: Egypt and Babylon
3
part
ι
—
Greece
ι
Herodotus: The Great Invasion and the Historian's Task
1
3
2
Thucydides: The
Polis
—
the Use and Abuse of Power
30
3
The Greeks in Asia
51
Xenophon: The Persian Expedition
51
The Alexander Historians:
Arrian
and
Curtius
Rufus
57
part
11 —
Rome
4
Polybius: Universal History, Pragmatic History
and the Rise of Rome
65
5
Sallust: A City for Sale
80
β
Livy: From the Foundation of the City
90
7
Civil War and the Road to Autocracy: Plutarch,
Appian and Cassius
Dio ni
8
Tacitus: "Men fit to be slaves"
122
9
A Provincial Perspective: Josephus on the Jewish Revolt
141
vi
Contents
10 Ammianus
Marcellinus:
The Last Pagan Historian
149
11
General Characteristics of Ancient Historiography
158
part
111 —
Christendom
12
The Bible and History: The People of God
169
із
Eusebius: The Making of Orthodoxy and the
Church Triumphant
і у
8
14
Gregory of Tours: Kings, Bishops and Others
187
15
Bede:
The English Church and the English People
202
part
iv —
The Revival of Secular History
ie
Annals, Chronicles and History
217
Annals and Chronicles
217
Pseudo-History: Geoffrey of Monmouth
220
Secular History and Chronicle: William of
Malmesbury's Modern History and the Scurrilities
of Matthew Paris
226
Two Abbey Chronicles: St. Albans and Bury St. Edmunds
235
17
Crusader History and Chivalric History: ViUehardouin and
Froissait
244
Villehardouin's The Conquest of Constantinople
244
Froissart: "Matters of great renown"
249
is From Civic Chronicle to Humanist History:
Villani, Machiavelli
and Guicciardini
259
part
v
—
Studying the Past
19
Antiquarianism, Legal History and the
Discovery of Feudalism
283
20
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion:
The Wilralness of Particular Men
302
21
Philosophic History
313
Hume: Enthusiasm and Regicide
313
Robertson: "The State of Society" and the
Idea of Europe
320
Gibbon: Rome, Barbarism and Civilization
332
Contents
vii
22
Revolutions: England and France
345
Macaulay: The Glorious Revolution
345
Carlyle's French Revolution: History with a
Hundreďlbngues
354
Michelet and
Taine:
The People and the Mob
365
23
History as the Story of Freedom: Constitutional Liberty
and Individual Autonomy
3 80
Stubbs's Constitutional History: From Township to
Parliament
380
Modernity's First-born Son:
Burckhardťs
Renaissance Man
388
24
A New World: American Experiences
397
The Halls of Montezuma: Diaz, Prescott and the
Conquest of New Spain
397
Outposts in the Wilderness: Parkman's History of
the Great West
406
Henry Adams
:
From Republic to Nation
414
25
A Professional Consensus: The German Influence
425
Professionalization
425
German Historicism:
Ranke, God
and
Machiavelli
428
Not Quite a Copernican Revolution
43 3
26
The Twentieth Century
438
Professionalism and the Critique of "Whig History":
History as a Science and History as an Art
438
"Structures": Cultural History and the
Annales
School
448
Marxism: The Last Grand Narrative?
45 5
Anthropology and History: Languages and Paradigms
462
Suppressed Identities and Global Perspectives:
World History and Micro-History
468
Select Bibliography
48 7
Index 5O1 |
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