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Historiography : ancient, medieval & modern / Ernst Breisach.
LIBRA D13 .B686 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breisach, Ernst.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 481 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, microhistory, "Historikerstreit," the linguistic turn, and more.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-458) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0226072789
- OCLC:
- 30547797
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