Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

A pioneering work that presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.

Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition of Ernst Breisach's Historiography narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cul...