New Ways of History

Gelina Harlaftis is Associate Professor of Maritime History and Head of Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Nikos Karapidakis is Professor of Medieval History, Ionian University, Corfu. Kostas Sbonias is Assistant Professor of Prehistorical Archaeology, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Vaios Vaipoulos is Assistant Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu.

'The chapters in this volume exhibit and clarify the state and status of our expanding and increasingly sophisticated field in ways that are simply top class.' - Patrick O'Brien FBA, Professor of Global Economic History, London School of Economics; 'Among the mass of historiographical volumes that have landed on my desk in the past few years, The New Ways of History stands out for its innovative and often seminal approach. In part thematic and topical, and in part chronological, but always thoughtful and provocative, the essays collectively open up new approaches to the writing of history and should stimulate historians to think more carefully about how they approach the past. It is a good read that belongs on the bookshelf of every scholar who values new ways of thinking about their craft.' - Lewis R. Fischer, Professor of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland; 'The major advantage of the book is the logic which predominates in its own building. We have lots of books which try to emphasize the new tendencies in historiography in more or less theoretical terms, but, as far as I know, we have very few books which tend to approach historiography not as one and unified discipline but as a sum of sub-disciplines, each having its own characteristics. This book constitutes an effort to examine changes in historiography, not only in the domain of its own construction, or of research but in teaching as well, and in the relations of the historian with current reality, an issue which is becoming more and more crucial in contemporary historiography.' - Konstantinos Kostis, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Athens

• Introduction Chapter 1: Changing Ancient Greek History by Robin Osborne, Cambridge University, UK Chapter 2: Problems in Studying Ancient Greek Religion by Stella Georgoudi, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Chapter 3: New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology in the last twenty years by John Bintliff, Leiden University, Netherlands Chapter 4: Landscape History and Archaeology by Kostas Sbonias, Ioanian University, Corfu, Greece Chapter 5: Medieval History in France: Attempts to Balance by Anita Guerreau-Jalabert, Ecole des chartes, France Chapter 6: Byzantine History by Cecile Morrisson, Collège de France, France Chapter 7: Historiographical Trends in Renaissance Studies 1985-2005 by Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv University, Israel Chapter 8: On Economic History: The Progress of a Discipline Living with its Neighbours by Peter Mathias, Cambridge University, UK Chapter 9: Business History by Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School, USA Chapter 10: The Encounter of History with the Social Sciences by Paschalis Kitromilidis, University of Athens, National Research Foundation/INR, Greece Chapter 11: Gender History by Jean Quataert, Binghampton University, State University of New York, USA Chapter 12: Diaspora and Historical Memory by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Tufts University, USA Chapter 13: Maritime History by Gelina Harlaftis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Chapter 14: Ottoman History by Donald Quataert, Binghampton University, State University of New York, USA Chapter 15: The Historian in the Modern World: A Proposal for a Critical Perspective by Francois Hartog, E.H.E.S.S, France Chapter 16: Historians and the Return to the Diachronic by Penelope J. Cornfield, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK