A Global History of Modern Historiography /Georg G Iggers

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Historiographical Traditions in the World: A View of the Eighteenth Century2. The Advance of Nationalism and Nationalist History: The West, the Middle East, and India in the Nineteenth Century 3. Academic History and the Shaping of Historical Profession: Transforming Historical Study in the Nineteenth Century West and East Asia4. Historical Writings in the Shadow of Two World Wars: The Crisis of Historicism and Modern Historiography5. The Appeal of Nationalist History around the World: Historical Studies in the Middle East and Asia in the Twentieth Century6. New Challenges in the Postwar Period: From Social History to Postmodernism and Postcolonialism7. The Rise of Islamism and the Ebb of Marxism: Historical Writings in Late Twentieth Century Asia, the Middle East and the West8. Historiography after the Cold War, 1990-2007: A Critical RetrospectGlossary Suggested Readings Index

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.