The first book on historiography to adopt a comparative, global perspective on the topic, this text looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the non-Western world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This edition contains fully updated sections on Latin American and African historiography, discussion of the development of global history and feminist and gender history in recent years, and new coverage of Russian historical practices, and will also include a selection of relevant primary source materials.

Georg G. Iggers is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo. His publications include Marxist Historiographies: A Global Perspective (2015, co-edited with Q. Edward Wang), Historiography in the Twentieth Century (1997) and The German Conception of History (1968).

Q. Edward Wang is Professor of History at Rowan University in the US and Changjiang Professor of History at Peking University in China. Among his publications are Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History (2015), Mirroring the Past: the Writing and Use of History in Imperial China (2005, co-authored with On-Cho Ng) and Inventing China through History: the May Fourth Approach to Historiography (2001).

Supriya Mukherjee teaches at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Her research interests include German history and the history of historical writing in India.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Historiographical Traditions in the World: A View of the Eighteenth Century

2. 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 Asia

4. Historical Writings in the Shadow of Two World Wars: The Crisis of Historicism and Modern Historiography

5. The Appeal of Nationalist History around the World: Historical Studies in the Middle East and Asia in the Twentieth Century

6. New Challenges in the Postwar Period: From Social History to Postmodernism and Postcolonialism

7. The Rise of Islamism and the Ebb of Marxism: Historical Writings in Late Twentieth Century Asia, the Middle East and the West

8. Historiography after the Cold War, 1990-2007: A Critical Retrospect

Glossary

Suggested Readings

Index