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

The Oxford History Of Historical Writing Is A Five-volume, Multi-authored Scholarly Survey Of The History Of Historical Writing Across The Globe. It Is A Chronological History Of Humanitys Attempts To Conserve, Recover, And Narrate Its Past With Considerable Attention Paid To Different Global Traditions And Their Points Of Comparison With Western Historiography. Each Volume Covers A Particular Period, With Care Taken To Avoid Unduly Privileging Western Notions Of Periodization, And The Volumes Cover Progressively Shorter Chronological Spans, Reflecting Both The Greater Geographical Range Of Later Volumes And The Steep Increase In Historical Activity Around The World Since The Nineteenth Century. The Oxford History Of Historical Writing Is The First Collective Scholarly Survey Of The History Of Historical Writing To Cover The Globe Across Such A Substantial Breadth Of Time-- V. 1. Beginnings To Ad 600 / Andrew Feldherr And Grant Hardy, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 2. 400-1400 / Sarah Foot And Chase F. Robinson, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 3. 1400-1800 / José Rabasa ... [et. Al.], Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 4. 1800-1945 -- V. 5. Historical Writing Since 1945 / Axel Schneider And Daniel Woolf, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor. Daniel Woolf, General Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 14 List of Maps 17 Notes on the Contributors 18 Advisory Board 22 Editors’ Introduction 24 1. Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing 47 2. The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion 66 3. Private Historiography in Late Imperial China 83 4. A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing 103 5. Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea 126 6. Southeast Asian Historical Writing 142 7. Indo-Persian Historical Thoughts and Writings: India 1350–1750 171 8. Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501–1722/36) 196 9. Ottoman Historical Writing 215 10. Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800 235 11. Philology and History 256 12. Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc 267 13. History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates 284 14. Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine 305 15. Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe 325 16. German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment 347 17. Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative 370 18. Italian Historical Writing, 1680–1800 387 19. History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV 407 20. The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes 429 21. Writing Official History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474–1600 451 22. Historical Writing in Scandinavia 472 23. Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of Enlightenment 496 24. Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment 520 25. English Enlightenment Histories, 1750–c.1815 541 26. European Historiography on the East 559 27. A New History for a ‘New World’: The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing 579 28. Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genres 598 29. Alphabetical Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography 623 30. Inca Historical Forms 642 31. Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500–1800 663 32. Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates 684 33. Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America 703 Index 724 A 724 B 725 C 727 D 730 E 730 F 731 G 732 H 733 I 735 J 736 K 737 L 737 M 739 N 741 O 741 P 742 Q 743 R 744 S 745 T 747 U 748 V 748 W 749 X 749 Y 749 Z 750 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. A 5-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day, and from all over the world, volume 1 offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons--Book Jacket Vol. 1: Offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until ca. AD 600