Companion to Western Historical Thought

Lloyd Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998). Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France (1983) and Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993).

"This companion is expansive in its subject and links with other disciplines, such as ancient history and the classics, anthropology, Biblical studies and theology… It covers many expected subjects, but also explores lesser-known areas of historical interest as well as the challenges to historical thought in the twenty-first century that will continue to make this companion a useful library resource." Reference Reviews

• List of Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: The Cultural History of Historical ThoughtLloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza 1Part I The Pre-modern Origins of Western Historical Thought1 Historiography in Ancient IsraelJohn Van Seters 152 Historical Thought in Ancient GreecePhilip A. Stadter 353 Historical Thought in Ancient RomeJ. E. Lendon 604 Historical Thought in Medieval EuropeGabrielle M. Spiegel 785 Historical Thought in the RenaissancePaula Findlen 99Part II The Shaping of Modern Western Historical Thought6 Historical Thought in the Era of the EnlightenmentJohnson Kent Wright 1237 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and HegelHarold Mah 1438 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of PoliticsHarry Liebersohn 1669 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and BancroftThomas N. Baker 18510 Marxism and Historical ThoughtWalter L. Adamson 205Part III Patterns in Twentieth-century Western Historical Thought11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical ThoughtGeorg G. Iggers 22512 The History of Armed PowerPeter Paret 24313 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian ParadigmsDavid A. Bell 26214 Anthropology and the History of CultureWilliam M. Reddy 27715 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Theory of Relativistic ObjectivityKen Alder 29716 Language, Literary Studies, and Historical ThoughtSusan A. Crane 31917 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical ThoughtLynn Hunt 33718 Redefining Historical Identities: Sexuality, Gender, and the SelfCarolyn J. Dean 35719 Historicizing Natural Environments: The Deep Roots of Environmental HistoryAndrew C. Isenberg 372Part IV Challenges to the Boundaries of Western Historical Thought20 The New World HistoryJerry H. Bentley 39321 Postcolonial HistoryPrasenjit Duara 41722 The Multicultural History of NationsDonna R. Gabaccia 43223 New Technologies and Historical KnowledgeJames M. Murray 44724 The Visual Media and Historical KnowledgeRobert A. Rosenstone 466Consolidated Bibliography 482Index 495