Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Edited by:
José Rabasa (Professor Emeritus and Long Term Visiting Professor Professor Emeritus and Long Term Visiting Professor UC Berkeley and Harvard University),
Masayuki Sato (Professor,
Faculty of Education and Human Sciences,
Professor,
Faculty of Education and Human Sciences,
University of Yamanashi,
Kofu,
Yamanashi,
Japan),
Edoardo Tortarolo (Professor,
Department of the Humanities,
Professor,
Department of the Humanities,
University of Eastern Piedmont),
Daniel Woolf (Professor,
Department of History,
Professor,
Department of History,
Queen's University,
Kingston,
Ontario)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 157mm,
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 1.108kg
ISBN: 9780198738008
ISBN 10: 0198738005
Series: Oxford History of Historical Writing
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 15 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Editors' Introduction 1: Achim Mittag: Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing 2: Pamela Kyle Crossley: The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion 3: On-cho Ng: Private Historiography in Late Imperial China 4: Masayuki Sato: A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing 5: Don Baker: Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea 6: Geoff Wade: Southeast Asian Historical Writing 7: Asim Roy: Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India 1350-1750 8: Christoph Marcinkowski: Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501-1722/36) 9: Baki Tezcan: Ottoman Historical Writing 10: Paul E. Lovejoy: Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800 11: Donald R. Kelley: Philology and History 12: Peter N. Miller: Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc 13: Peter Burke: History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates 14: Michael A. Pesenson and Jennifer Spock: Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine 15: Howard Louthan: Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe 16: Markus Völkel: German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment 17: William J. Connell: Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative 18: Edoardo Tortorolo: Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800 19: Chantal Grell: History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV 20: Guido Abbattista: The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes 21: Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: Writing History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474-1600 22: Karen Skovgaard-Petersen: Historical Writing in Scandinavia 23: Daniel Woolf: Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment 24: David Allan: Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment 25: Karen O'Brien: English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815 26: Diogo Ramada Curto: European Historiography on the East 27: Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: A New History for a 'New World': The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing 28: Elizabeth Hill Boone: Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genre 29: José Rabasa: Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography 30: Catherine Julien: Inca Historical Forms 31: Neil L. Whitehead: Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500-1800 32: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates 33: David Read: Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities, including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of The Oxford History of Historical Writing (and co-editor of volume 5 in the series) he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998). His single volume textbook, A Global History of History, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.
Reviews for The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 3: 1400-1800
unrolls the great map of mankind, displaying the historical consciousness of the human race in all its varieties. Jonathan Clark, Times Literary Supplement
