A Global History of Modern Historiography

A Global History of Modern Historiography
ISBN-10
1317895010
ISBN-13
9781317895015
Category
History
Pages
449
Language
English
Published
2013-09-13
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Q. Edward Wang, Supriya Mukherjee, Georg G Iggers

Description

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.

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