Literate civilizations have always celebrated or contested images of their pastby writing about them. Historiography considers how and why such writing hastaken... » 

Literate civilizations have always celebrated or contested images of their pastby writing about them. Historiography considers how and why such writing hastaken the various shapes that it has.Now in paperback this work gives readers a definitive overview of the mostimportant developments in the techniques of and approaches to historicalwriting.Each selection presents a study of recent historiography in relation to aparticular theme or problemfrequently in the context of other disciplines.Introductory surveys help readers to locate the periods and places discussed.Articles contributed by a carefully selected panel of distinguished academicsconvey in direct jargonfree language a genuinely international wideangledview of the ideas traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporaryurgency of world history.This valuable companion offers an engaging response to the fascination currentin all branches of the humanities with how the past has been turned into textand made into history. «