Fifty Key Thinkers On History

✍ Scribed by Marnie Hughes-Warrington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Routledge Fifty Key Thinkers
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Chronological list of contents......Page 10
Introduction to the third edition: History, histories......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Bede......Page 22
Marc Bloch......Page 29
Fernand Braudel......Page 37
E. H. Carr......Page 45
R. G. Collingwood......Page 53
Benedetto Croce......Page 60
Natalie Zemon Davis......Page 67
Christine de Pizan......Page 74
Wilhelm Dilthey......Page 81
G. R. Elton......Page 87
Richard J. Evans......Page 95
Lucien Febvre......Page 103
Niall Ferguson......Page 109
Michel Foucault......Page 114
Jean Froissart......Page 121
Pieter Geyl......Page 128
Edward Gibbon......Page 133
Gregory of Tours......Page 140
Ranajit Guha......Page 146
G. W. F. Hegel......Page 152
Martin Heidegger......Page 160
Herodotus......Page 166
Eric Hobsbawm......Page 173
Ibn Khaldun......Page 182
Keith Jenkins......Page 189
Immanuel Kant......Page 196
Thomas Samuel Kuhn......Page 201
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie......Page 208
Livy......Page 215
Thomas Babington Macaulay......Page 221
Niccolò Machiavelli......Page 227
William Hardy McNeill......Page 233
Karl Marx......Page 238
Jules Michelet......Page 245
Theodore William Moody......Page 251
Friedrich Nietzsche......Page 257
Michael Oakeshott......Page 263
Polybius......Page 270
Leopold von Ranke......Page 277
Paul Ricoeur......Page 283
Joan Wallach Scott......Page 290
Sima Qian......Page 297
Oswald Spengler......Page 302
Tacitus......Page 308
A. J. P. Taylor......Page 315
E. P. Thompson......Page 321
Thucydides......Page 327
Frederick Jackson Turner......Page 332
Giambattista Vico......Page 338
Hayden White......Page 344
Index......Page 352

✦ Subjects

Historiography, Key Thinkers