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In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, microhistory, Historikerstreit, the linguistic turn, and more.

Ernst A. Breisach

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., History, University of Vienna, Austria (1946)

Dr. rer. oec. Business and Economics, Wirtschaftshochschule, Vienna, Austria (1950)

Distinguished Faculty Scholar

Office: 4312 Friedmann Hall

E-mail: ebreisach@sbcglobal.net

Phone: (269) 387-4590

Major Publications

Books - Author of:

On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Second, revised edition: Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 1994.

Renaissance Europe. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973.

Caterina Sforza. A Renaissance Virago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Introduction to Modern Existentialism. New York: Grove Press, Hardcover, 1960. Paperback 1962.

Books - Editor of:

Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography. Studies in Medieval Culture XIX, Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1985.

Preface
Introduction
·1· The Emergence of Greek Historiography
The Timeless Past of Gods and Heroes
Discovering a Past of Human Dimensions
·2· The Era of the Polis and Its Historians
The New History of the Polis
The Decline of the Polis: The Loss of Focus
·3· Reaching the Limits of Greek I-listoriography
The History of a Special Decade
Hellenistic Historiography: Beyond the Confines of the Polis
The Problem of New Regions and People
·4· Early Roman Historiography
Myths, Greeks, and the R~epublic
An Early Past Dimly Perceived
The Roman Past and Greek Learning
Greco-Roman History Writing: Triumph and a Latin Response
·5· Historians and the Republic's Crisis
History as Inspiration and Structural Analysis
History Divorced from Rome's Fate
·6· Perceptions of the Past in Augustan and Imperial Rome
History Writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus
Historians and the Empire
·7· The Christian Historiographical Revolution
The Formulation of Early Christian Historiography
The Problem of Continuity in an Age of Upheaval
The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Consolidation in Historiography
·8· The Historiographical Mastery of New Peoples, States, and Dynasties
Integrating Peoples into Latin Historiography
Legitimizing New States and Dynasties
·9· Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth
The Last Synthesis of Empire and Christianity
The Persistence of Christian Themes
Histories of a Grand and Holy Venture: The Crusades
·10· Historiography's Adjustment to Accelerating Change
The Search for Developmental Patterns
Transformations of the Chronicle
·11· Two Turning Points The Renaissance and The Reformation
The Italian Renaissance Historians
Humanist Revisionism Outside of Italy
The Collapse of Spiritual Unity
·12· The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography
The Blending of Theoretical and Patriotic Answers
Universal History: A Troubled Tradition
Historians, the New Politics, and New Perceptions of the World
The Origin and Early Forms of American History
·13· The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a New Historiography
The Reassessment of Historical Order and Truth
New Views on Historical Truth
New Grand Interpretations: Progress in History
New Grand Interpretations: The Cyclical Pattern
·14· Three National Responses
The British Blend of Erudition, Elegance, and Empiricism
Enlightenment Historiography in a German Key
Recording the Birth of the American Nation
·15· Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-I
German Historians: The Causes of Truth and National Unity
France: Historians, the Nation, and Liberty
·16· Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-II
English Historiography in the Age of Revolution
Historians and the Building of the American Nation
Historiography's "Golden Age"
·17· A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (1860-1914)
·18· History and the Quest for a Uniform Science
Comte's Call to Arms and the Response
The German and English Responses to Positivist Challenges
The Peculiar American Synthesis
·19· The Discovery of Economic Dynamics
An Economic Perspective on the Past
Karl Marx: Paneconornic Historiography
Economic History after Marx
·20· Historians Encounter the Masses
Jubilant and Dark Visions
Social History as Institutional History
The American "New History": Call for a Democratic History
·21· The Problem of World History
·22· A Second Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (since 1914)
·23· Questions of Historical Truth-The Theoretical Discussion
The New Positivism and the Theory of History
Autonomous History and Its Theories
·24· Two Recent Endeavors in "Scientific" History
History in the Language of Numbers
Psychohistory: A Promise and Many Problems
·25· The Fading of the Paneconomic Model
Marxist Historiography: Ultimate Meaning or Another Method?
Reshaping Economic History
·26· American and French Interpretations of Social History
American Progressive History
The Annales School
·27· Redefinitions of Two National Historiographies
The Transformation of German Historiography
Historiography as a Mirror of Postwar America
·28· The Enigma of World History
Progress and Westernization
The Multiple Cultures Model
World System Theories
Epilogue
Historiography at the New Tum of Centuries
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Persons and Anonymous Works
Index of Subjects
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