A history of histories : epics, chronicles, romances and inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the twentieth century /
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Vintage Books,
2009, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A history of histories?
- Prologue: Keeping records and making accounts: Egypt and Babylon
- pt. 1. Greece. Herodotus: the great invasion and the historian's task
- Thucydides: the Polis
- the use and abuse of power
- The Greeks in Asia. Xenophon: The Persian expedition
- The Alexander historians: Arrian and Curtius Rufus
- pt. 2. Rome. Polybius: universal history, pragmatic history and the rise of Rome
- Sallust: a city for sale
- Livy: From the foundation of the city
- Civil War and the road to autocracy: Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio
- Tacitus: "Men fit to be slaves"
- A provincial perspective: Josephus on the Jewish Revolt
- Ammianus Marcellinus: the last pagan historian
- General characteristics of ancient historiography
- pt. 3. Christendom. The Bible and history: the people of God
- Eusebius: the making of Orthodoxy and the Church triumphant
- Gregory of Tours: kings, bishops and others
- Bede: the English Church and the English people
- pt. 4. The revival of secular history. 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
- Crusader history and chivalric history: Villehardouin and Froissart. Villehardouin's The conquest of Constantinople
- Froissart: "matters of great renown"
- From civic chronicle to human history: Villani, Machivavelli and Guicciardini
- pt. 5. Studying the past. Antiquarianism, legal history and the discovery of feudalism
- Clarendon's History of the rebellion: the Wilfulness of particular men
- Philosophic history. Hume: enthusiasm and regicide
- Robertson: "The state of society" and the idea of Europe
- Gibbon: Rome, barbarism and civilization
- 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
- History as the story of freedom: constitutional liberty and individual autonomy. Stubb's Constitutional history: from township Parliament
- Modernity's first-born son: Burckhardt's Renaissance man
- A new world: American experiences. The halls of Montezuma: Diaz, Prescott and the conquest of New Spain
- Outposts in the wilderness: Parkman's history of the great West
- Henry Adams: from republic to nation
- A professoional consensus: The German influence. Professionalization.
- German historicism: Ranke, God and Machiavelli
- Not quite a Copernican revolution
- The twentieth century. Professionalism and the 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.