Fifty Key Thinkers on History

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781134482603
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia del mundo

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include:

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• Herodotus

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• Bede

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• Ibn Khaldun

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• E. H. Carr

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• Fernand Braudel

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• Eric Hobsbawm

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• Michel Foucault

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• Edward Gibbon

Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinker's approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study.

INDEX

Page references in bold refer to text within tables

Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) (Livy) 196–202, 210

absolute knowledge 64

absolute presuppositions 38–9

absolutism 113

Abu ‘Inan (sultan) 163

Achaeans 251–2

action 63; economic and moral 45; hidden motivations for 115–16; of historian 37–9, 247–9; re-enactment 34, 37–8, 268

‘The Activity of being an Historian’ (Oakeshott) 247, 248–9

Acton, Lord 258

The Advancement of Learning (Bacon) 213

Advision-Christine (The Vision of Christine de Pizan) (de Pizan) 58–60

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (Croce) 43, 44

Afterthoughts on Material Civilisation (Braudel) 20

The Age of, book series 156–7, 159

The Age of Capital 1848–1875 (Hobsbawm) 157, 160

age of catastrophe 158

The Age of Empire 1875–1914 (Hobsbawm) 157–8

Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century 1914–1991 (Hobsbawm) 156, 158–9, 160

age of heroes 321–2

age of humans 321–2

age of poetry 321–2

The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 (Hobsbawm) 156–7

agents, historical: historian’s engagement with 35–9, 66; peasants as 129; understanding of 11, 79, 90, 322; working class as 272

Agincourt, battle of (1415) 60

Agricola (Tacitus) 290

Agricola, Gnaeus Julius 289, 290–1

Aidan, Bishop 7

Alban, St 5

Albinus, Abbot 7

Algeria 18–9

alienation 220–1, 224

allegory 56–8

Allen, William F. 314

Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) (Nietzsche) 243

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