An incisive account of the entire history of historical writing worldwide by one of the leading intellects in the field.

As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing

"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book ch

Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography introduces some of the most important works ever written by those who have sought to understand, capture, query an

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a g