Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-479) and indexes.

Preface; Introduction; 1 The Emergence of Greek Historiography; 2 The Era of the Polis and Its Historians; 3 Reaching the Limits of Greek Historiography; 4 Early Roman Historiography Myths, Greeks, and the Republic; 5 Historians and the Republic's Crisis; 6 Perceptions of the Past in Augustan and Imperial Rome; 7 The Christian Historiographical Revolution; 8 The Historiographical Mastery of New Peoples, States, and Dynasties; 9 Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth; 10 Historiography's Adjustment to Accelerating Change 11 Two Turning Points The Renaissance and The Reformation12 The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography; 13 The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a new Historiography; 14 Three National Responses; 15 Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-I; 16 Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-II; 17 A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (1860-1914); 18 History and the Quest for a Uniform Science; 19 The Discovery of Economic Dynamics; 20 Historians Encounter the Masses; 21 The Problem of World History 22 Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918-39)23 History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918-39); 24 Historiography and the Grand Ideologies; 25 American Historiography after 1945; 26 History in the Scientific Mode; 27 Transformations in English and French Historiography; 28 Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Unionand Western Democracies; 29 Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism; 30 World History Between Vision and Reality; 31 Recent Historiography: Fundamental Challenges and Their Aftermath; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography

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 up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography