The Oxford History of Historical Writing : Volume 4: 1800-1945

Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945. Divided into four parts, it first covers the rise, consolidation, and crisis of European historical thought, and the professionalization and institutionalization of history. The chapters in Part II analyze how historical scholarship connected to various European national traditions. Part III considers the historical writing of Europe's 'Offspring': the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, and Spanish South America. The concluding part is devoted to histories of non-European cultural traditions: China, Japan, India, South East Asia, Turkey, the Arab world, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the fourth 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. This volume aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field, and especially to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. Cover Contents List of Maps Notes on the Contributors Advisory Board Editors’ Introduction 1. History and Theory 2. History and Memory 3. Censorship and History since 1945 4. Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies 5. World History 6. Global Economic History: A Survey 7. Women’s and Gender History 8. The Historiography of Environmental History 9. The Historiography of Science and Technology 10. History and Social Science in the West 11. From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing 12. Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary 13. French Historical Writing 14. British Historical Writing 15. Scandinavian Historical Writing 16. Italian Historical Writing 17. Historical Writing in the Balkans 18. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia 19. African Historical Writing 20. Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political and Economic Instability 21. Brazilian Historical Writing 22. Mexican Historical Writing 23. Historical Writing in the United States 24. Arab Historical Writing 25. Indian Historical Writing since 1947 26. Thai Historical Writing 27. Vietnamese Historical Writing 28. Indonesian Historical Writing after Independence 29. Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia 30. Chinese Historical Writing since 1949 31. Japanese Historical Writing 32. Historians and Historical Writing in Modern Korea Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 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 The fourth 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, this volume offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945.