Fifty Key Thinkers on History
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Fifty Key Thinkers on History

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Fifty Key Thinkers on History

About this book

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:

  • Herodotus

  • Bede

  • Ibn Khaldun

  • E. H. Carr

  • Fernand Braudel

  • Eric Hobsbawm

  • Michel Foucault

  • 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.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780415791861
9780415703581
Edition
3
eBook ISBN
9781134482603
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History
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
Alt...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Chronological list of contents
  8. Introduction to the third edition: History, histories
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Bede
  11. Marc Bloch
  12. Fernand Braudel
  13. E. H. Carr
  14. R. G. Collingwood
  15. Benedetto Croce
  16. Natalie Zemon Davis
  17. Christine de Pizan
  18. Wilhelm Dilthey
  19. G. R. Elton
  20. Richard J. Evans
  21. Lucien Febvre
  22. Niall Ferguson
  23. Michel Foucault
  24. Jean Froissart
  25. Pieter Geyl
  26. Edward Gibbon
  27. Gregory of Tours
  28. Ranajit Guha
  29. G. W. F. Hegel
  30. Martin Heidegger
  31. Herodotus
  32. Eric Hobsbawm
  33. Ibn Khaldun
  34. Keith Jenkins
  35. Immanuel Kant
  36. Thomas Samuel Kuhn
  37. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  38. Livy
  39. Thomas Babington Macaulay
  40. Niccolò Machiavelli
  41. William Hardy McNeill
  42. Karl Marx
  43. Jules Michelet
  44. Theodore William Moody
  45. Friedrich Nietzsche
  46. Michael Oakeshott
  47. Polybius
  48. Leopold von Ranke
  49. Paul Ricoeur
  50. Joan Wallach Scott
  51. Sima Qian
  52. Oswald Spengler
  53. Tacitus
  54. A. J. P. Taylor
  55. E. P. Thompson
  56. Thucydides
  57. Frederick Jackson Turner
  58. Giambattista Vico
  59. Hayden White
  60. Index

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