HIST 3000: Historiography

Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information, a summary and discussion of the historian's approach to history and how others have engaged with it, a list of their major works, and a guide to resources for further study.
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Covers historiography and historians from around the world. Historiographical trends in individual countries and regions appear alongside major schools of thought like Marxism and postmodernism.

Addresses key concepts in history, such as cultural history, dialectic, the Enlightenment, historical materialism, liberalism, realism, and Zeitgeist. It explains how, when, and by whom they were introduced and how they have been used over the years and how their meanings have evolved.

Brings together biographies of the great historians with concise summaries of their key works. It also traces the evolution of historiography over time.

Through case studies of leading historians, historical novelists, Hollywood filmmakers and television history presenters, this book looks critically at alternative literary and visual ways of presenting the past as both academic history and popular history.

A guide to influential historians and historical debates since the writing of history began. View extensive Preview PDF here

Provides entries on over 450 historians, dating from Herodotus to the present. Includes individuals chosen not necessarily on account of the importance of their own research, but for their interest in, and influence on, the theory and practice of history.

This biographical dictionary in the field of historiography consists of brief articles on the life and work of 600 historians from all over the world.

Covers to historians of the 19th and 20th centuries.