From Herodotus to H-Net

The Story of Historiography
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-992300-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 141 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography offers a concise but comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. Clearly written and organized, it shows how the same issues that historians debate today were already recognized in past centuries, and how the efforts of historians in the past remain relevant today. Balanced and fair-minded, the book
covers the development of modern academic scholarship, but also helps students appreciate the contributions of popular historians and of the many forms of public history. Often drawing on what historians from Edward Gibbon to Natalie Zemon Davis have written about their own careers, From Herodotus to
H-Net brings the discipline of history alive for students and general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popkin, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy D. Popkin is the William T. Bryan Chair of History at the University of Kentucky. Popkin attended Reed College, UCSD, and UC-Berkeley as an undergraduate, and did graduate work at Harvard University and the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. Popkin has written or edited more than twenty books, including pathbreaking studies of the French and Haitian Revolutions and on the relationship between history and autobiography. Popkin has
also taught courses on the Holocaust, and he regularly teaches seminars on historiography.