Turning Points in Historiography 1st Edition by Q Edward Wang, Georg G Iggers ISBN 1580460976 9781580460972

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ISBN 10: 1580460976 
ISBN 13: 9781580460972
Author: Q Edward Wang, Georg G Iggers

Until recently almost all histories of historiography have focused on national developments or at best introduced a comparative note from a limited Western perspective. Only in the last few years have there been serious attempts to transcend these borders. The present volume examines turning points in historical thought in a variety of cultures. The essays in the first half of the book deal with fundamental reorientations in historical thinking in the pre-modern period since Antiquity, specifically in ancient Greece and China and in medieval Christian Europe, the Islamic world and again China. The essays all proceed from the premise that historical thought in none of these cultures was static but underwent profound changes over time.
The essays in the second part deal with historical writing beginning with the professionalization of history in the nineteenth century. National history researched and composed around a master narrative constituted a major turning point in this period. Although the new paradigm emerged in the West, it was broadly accepted by historians throughout the world.in the twentieth century. Individual chapters deal with conceptions of scientific history in the West, a comparison of national histories in Japan, France, and the United States, and the invention of Chinese, African, and Indian national histories; finally the critiquesof the modern paradigm in postmodernist and postcolonial theory and a consideration of the shortcomings of these critiques.

Turning Points in Historiography 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
PART I
2. The Invention of History: From Homer to Herodotus
3. The Ch’in Unification (221 B.C.) in Chinese Historiography
4. From Ancient to Medieval Historical Thinking
5. New Directions in Northern Sung Historical Thinking (960-1126)
6. Turning Points in Islamic Historical Practice
7. The Historicization of Classical Learning in Ming-Ch’ing China
PART II
8. Conceptions of Scientific History in the Nineteenth-Century West
9. National Histories and World Systems: Writing Japan, France, and the United States
10. China’s Search for National History
11. Nationalism and African Historiography
12. The Subaltern School and the Ascendancy of Indian History
13. A Critique of the Postmodern Turn in Western Historiography
14. Postmodernism and Chinese History
15. Postscript

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