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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.
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Chronological list of contents
- Introduction to the third edition: History, histories
- Acknowledgements
- Bede
- Marc Bloch
- Fernand Braudel
- E. H. Carr
- R. G. Collingwood
- Benedetto Croce
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- Christine de Pizan
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- G. R. Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Lucien Febvre
- Niall Ferguson
- Michel Foucault
- Jean Froissart
- Pieter Geyl
- Edward Gibbon
- Gregory of Tours
- Ranajit Guha
- G. W. F. Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Herodotus
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Ibn Khaldun
- Keith Jenkins
- Immanuel Kant
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Livy
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- William Hardy McNeill
- Karl Marx
- Jules Michelet
- Theodore William Moody
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Michael Oakeshott
- Polybius
- Leopold von Ranke
- Paul Ricoeur
- Joan Wallach Scott
- Sima Qian
- Oswald Spengler
- Tacitus
- A. J. P. Taylor
- E. P. Thompson
- Thucydides
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- Giambattista Vico
- Hayden White
- Index