Fifty Key Thinkers on HistoryFifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include:
Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinker’s approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study. |
Contents
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Marc Bloch | 10 |
Fernand Braudel | 18 |
E H Carr | 26 |
R G Collingwood | 34 |
Benedetto Croce | 41 |
Natalie Zemon Davis | 48 |
Christine de Pizan | 55 |
Thomas Samuel Kuhn | 182 |
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie | 189 |
Livy | 196 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | 202 |
Niccolò Machiavelli | 208 |
William Hardy McNeill | 214 |
Karl Marx | 219 |
Jules Michelet | 226 |
Wilhelm Dilthey | 62 |
G R Elton | 68 |
Richard J Evans | 76 |
Lucien Febvre | 84 |
Niall Ferguson | 90 |
Michel Foucault | 95 |
Jean Froissart | 102 |
Pieter Geyl | 109 |
Edward Gibbon | 114 |
Gregory of Tours | 121 |
Ranajit Guha | 127 |
G W F Hegel | 133 |
Martin Heidegger | 141 |
Herodotus | 147 |
Eric Hobsbawm | 154 |
Ibn Khaldun | 163 |
Keith Jenkins | 170 |
Immanuel Kant | 177 |
Theodore William Moody | 232 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 238 |
Michael Oakeshott | 244 |
Polybius | 251 |
Leopold von Ranke | 258 |
Paul Ricoeur | 264 |
Joan Wallach Scott | 271 |
Sima Qian | 278 |
Oswald Spengler | 283 |
Tacitus | 289 |
A J P Taylor | 296 |
E P Thompson | 302 |
Thucydides | 308 |
Frederick Jackson Turner | 313 |
Giambattista Vico | 319 |
Hayden White | 325 |
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