Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Tradition and Transformation
6. On How Herodotus’ Historia Became History 33
7. Herodotus on Persia and Its Historical Value: A Comparison of Book III of the Historiae and the Parallel Version in the Behistun Inscription 53
8. Plutarch and His Presentation of Alexander the Great 81
9. From “Walking” to “Sitting”: Changes in the Practices of European Historiography From Ancient to Medieval Times 107
10. The Decline of a Tradition: The Changing Fate of George Sale’s Universal History and the Transformation of Modern European Historiography 129
11. The Birth of Modern Historiography and B. G. Niebuhr 151
12. Equal Emphasis on “Research” and “Representation”: A New Analysis of Leopold von Ranke’s Debut Work 179
13. Theodor Mommsen and His Legacy in the Study of the Early Roman Empire: A Critical Review 201
14. The French Revolution and Archives: The Formation and Transformation of Modern Archives 219
15. “Scientific History” and Nationalistic Historiography 237
16. Part II: Critiques and Challenges
17. Interest in the Recent Past and Contemporary History in Western Historiographical Tradition 259
18. The Return of the History of Ideas: Observations on the Evolution of Research Paradigms in the History of Ideas 283
19. Les Lieux de Mémoire and Pierre Nora’s Writing of French National History 303
20. The History and Politics of Les Lieux de Mémoire 335
21. The Return of Narrative and Subjectivity: Historiography After the Linguistic Turn 349
22. Hayden White and the Historians: A Historical Narrative in Time 367
23. Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Historiography 395
24. The Global Turn in the Studies of the French Revolution: Towards “Decolonizing” Revolutionary History 421
25. Part III: Comparative Perspectives
26. Dilemma and Reflection: Disenchantment with “Eurocentrism” and the Writing of World History 445
27. Imagining West and Self in the Global Easts: On Poland and Korea 481
28. Rethinking History at its Sunset 509
29. National vs Global History in View: History and Historiography in Japan as a Case Study 533
30. Japanese Perspectives on “Global History” 553
31. The End of “Grand Narratives”: “Memory” in History and “Use” in Science 567
32. The Development of Western Historiography as an Academic Field in China 587
33. In Search of a Way to Form the Autonomous People: The Actuality, Social Influence, and Internationality of Historical Studies in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century in Japan 611
34. Contributors 627
35. Index 635