The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 3: 1400-1800

by Rabasa, Jose; Sato, Masayuki; Tortarolo, Edoardo; Woolf, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780191804267
• ISBN10: 0191804266
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-06-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Author Biography

Jose 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.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
1. Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing, Achim Mittag
2. The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion, Pamela Kyle Crossley
3. Private Historiography in Late Imperial China, On-cho Ng
4. A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing, Masayuki Sato
5. Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea, Don Baker
6. Southeast Asian Historical Writing, Geoff Wade
7. Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India 1350-1750, Asim Roy
8. Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501-1722/36), Christoph Marcinkowski
9. Ottoman Historical Writing, Baki Tezcan
10. Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800, Paul E. Lovejoy
11. Philology and History, Donald R. Kelley
12. Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc, Peter N. Miller
13. History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates, Peter Burke
14. Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine, Michael A. Pesenson and Jennifer Spock
15. Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe, Howard Louthan
16. German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, Markus Volkel
17. Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative, William J. Connell
18. Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800, Edoardo Tortorolo
19. History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV, Chantal Grell
20. The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes, Guido Abbattista
21. Writing History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474-1600, Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske
22. Historical Writing in Scandinavia, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen
23. Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment, Daniel Woolf
24. Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment, David Allan
25. English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815, Karen O'Brien
26. European Historiography on the East, Diogo Ramada Curto
27. A New History for a 'New World': The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing, Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske
28. Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genre, Elizabeth Hill Boone
29. Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography, Jose Rabasa
30. Inca Historical Forms, Catherine Julien
31. Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500-1800, Neil L. Whitehead
32. Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
33. Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America, David Read