Editors' Introduction
1: Achim Mittag: Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming
and Qing
2: Pamela Kyle Crossley: The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial
Expansion
3: On-cho Ng: Private Historiography in Late Imperial China
4: Masayuki Sato: A Social History of Japanese Historical
Writing
5: Don Baker: Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea
6: Geoff Wade: Southeast Asian Historical Writing
7: Asim Roy: Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India
1350-1750
8: Christoph Marcinkowski: Persian Historical Writing under the
Safavids (1501-1722/36)
9: Baki Tezcan: Ottoman Historical Writing
10: Paul E. Lovejoy: Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History
in West Africa before 1800
11: Donald R. Kelley: Philology and History
12: Peter N. Miller: Major Trends in European Antiquarianism,
Petrarch to Peiresc
13: Peter Burke: History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates
14: Michael A. Pesenson and Jennifer Spock: Historical Writing in
Russia and Ukraine
15: Howard Louthan: Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing
in Central Europe
16: Markus Völkel: German Historical Writing from the Reformation
to the Enlightenment
17: William J. Connell: Italian Renaissance Historical
Narrative
18: Edoardo Tortorolo: Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800
19: Chantal Grell: History and Historians in France, from the Great
Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV
20: Guido Abbattista: The Historical Thought of the French
Philosophes
21: Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: Writing History in Spain: History and
Politics, c.1474-1600
22: Karen Skovgaard-Petersen: Historical Writing in Scandinavia
23: Daniel Woolf: Historical Writing in Britain from the Late
Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment
24: David Allan: Scottish Historical Writing of the
Enlightenment
25: Karen O'Brien: English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815
26: Diogo Ramada Curto: European Historiography on the East
27: Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: A New History for a 'New World': The
First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical
Writing
28: Elizabeth Hill Boone: Mesoamerican History: The Painted
Historical Genre
29: José Rabasa: Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican
Historiography
30: Catherine Julien: Inca Historical Forms
31: Neil L. Whitehead: Historical Writing about Brazil,
1500-1800
32: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: Spanish American Colonial
Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates
33: David Read: Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary
America
José Rabasa teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures at Harvard University. His publications include:
Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of
Eurocentrism (1993); Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The
Historiography of New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest
(2000); and Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista
Insurgency, and the Specter of History (2010).
Masayuki Sato was born in 1946 in Japan. He read Economics,
Philosophy, and History at Keio University and Cambridge
University. After teaching in Kyoto, He was invited to Yamanashi
University and is now Professor of Social Studies in the
Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. He was President of the
International Commission for the History and Theory of
Historiography (2005-10) and a Programme Officer of the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science (2007-2010). His latest books
are Historiographical Time and Space [Rekishi ninshiki no jiku]
(Tokyo, 2004) and Time in World History [Sekaishi ni okeru jikan]
(Tokyo, 2009) .; Edoardo Tortarolo was born in Italy. Educated at
the University of Turin, he has
taught at several Italian universities, at the University of
Leipzig (1997-8), and at Northwestern University (2010). In 2006 he
was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. He is
the author of several books
on the political culture of the European Enlightenment. Daniel
Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at
Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian
Universities, including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of
Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's
University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as
Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of The Oxford History
of Historical Writing (and co-editor
of volume 5 in the series) he is also the author or editor of
several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He
previously edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical
Writing (1998). His
single volume textbook, A Global History of History, was published
in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.
The Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas highly informative and thoughtful LASZLO KONTLER, English Historical Review Woolf has facilitated the critical surveys of materials that readers need to consider the circumstances that have shaped historical thought and practice on a truly global scale. Compiled by an international team of some 150 contributors, this series has already begun to stimulate new research and innovative teaching within and beyond the west, addressing if not correcting, any worries over the intellectual and cultural range of historical practice beyond Europe. Adam Budd, History
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