A Global History of History

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Daniel Woolf (Professor of History, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Ontario)

A Global History of History

Daniel Woolf (Professor of History, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Ontario)

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English

03 May 2011

History; Historiography; General & world history; History of ideas

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of different genres and forms of history and addresses key themes such as the interactions between West and East, the conflict of oral, pictographic, and written accounts of the past and the place of history in society and in politics. Numerous textual extracts and illustrations in every chapter capture the historical cultures of past civilizations and demonstrate the different forms that historical consciousness has taken around the world. The book offers unique insights into the interconnections between different historical cultures over 3000 years and relates the rise of history to key themes in world history.

By: Daniel Woolf (Professor of History and Principal and Vice-Chancellor Queen's University Ontario)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 247mm, Width: 175mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.160kg
ISBN: 9780521699082
ISBN 10: 0521699088
Publication Date: 03 May 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Global History of History

Advance praise: 'This is the first comprehensive one-volume history of historical writing from earliest times to the present. Its strength lies in its broad intercultural approach. It is very readable and I recommend it highly as a text in courses and seminars in historiography and comparative intellectual history.' Georg G. Iggers, State University of New York, Buffalo 'Woolf's book offers us a genuinely global study of the history of history, a lucid and balanced synthesis and one that makes a serious attempt to avoid the twin dangers of Eurocentrism and present-mindedness, emphasizing as it does the multiple roads to the past.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge 'This is a very knowledgeable and comprehensive history of world historiography. Woolf, a recognized expert in this area, has combined chronology and geography, including Africa and the Near and Far East as well as Europe and the US; and his solution works very well. The field of global history is relatively new and this is a bold and effective effort to encompass it in a single volume.' Donald Kelley, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey