The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day and from all over the world. Volume I offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons.
This volume aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field, and especially to provoke cross-cultural comparisons.
Amin seizes on precisely this general (national) staging of the local not only to show that the Indian nation emerged in its narration but also to mark the tension between the two as the point where the subaltern memory of 1922 can ...
And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions.
Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith (New Orleans, 2005). Byland, Bruce and Pohl, John M. D., In the Realm of 8 Deer: TheArchaeology of the Mixtec Codices (Norman, ...
The fifth volume of this series offers chapters on the writing of history globally since 1945.
A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asia between 400 and 1400.
This book covers the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600.
In Les Principesfondamentaux de lhistoire [Basic Principles of History] (1899), Xenopol attempted, ... References Hiemstra, Paul A. Alexandru D. Xenopol and the Development of Romanian Historiography New York: Garland, 1987. Zub, A1.
Jones , Whitney R. D. The Tree of Commonwealth , 1450-1793 ( Madison : Farleigh Dickinson University Press , 2000 ) . Kaufman , Paul . “ Community Lending Libraries in Eighteenth - Century Ireland and Wales ' , Library Quarterly ...
About 1530 the lawyer and For the early development of reference to authority in early modern historical texts , see Anthony Grafton , The Footnote : a Curious History ( Cambridge , MA , 1997 ) , especially ch . 6 . 21 Bodl .