The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American

The sole purpose of this book, said author Savoie Lottinville, is "to help the person committed to history to become an effective writer in that inviting field.

One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and

Shows how Orosius situates himself in the classical tradition and draws on a variety of rhetorical tools to shape his historical narrative, The histories agains