Table of Contents

Adam of Bremen; al-Biruni; antiquarianism; ars historica; Belgian historical writing; biography; Braun, Lily; Burke, Edmund; capitalism; Carlyle, Thomas; Chloe Namson; chaos theory; Chen Shou; chronicles, African; Churchill, Winston; Clark, Alice; Derrida, Jacques; determinism; Deutscher, Isaac; economic history; Eliade, Mircea; forgeries, historical; Fukuda Tokuzo; Garcilaso de la Vega; gender; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Gu Yingtai; Heidegger, Martin; history of ideas; Hrusheveky, Mykhial; Hume, David; Khalikan, Ibn; Johnson, Samuel; kosmas; kulturpessimismus; law and history; local history; Machiavelli, Niccola; materialism; Mao Zedong; More, Thomas; oral tradition; Pizan, Christine de; Platonov, Sergei; saxo grammaticus; Shakespeare, William; Tocqueville, Alexis de; zeitgeist.

About the Author

D.R. Woolf, Professor of History at Dalhousie University, has held research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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