Author's Introductory Note

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Author's Introductory Note III
3. I Image and Story 1
4. II Non-representational Visualizations of History: Maps, Genealogical Trees, Chronological Tables 11
5. III Enlightenment and Growing Interest in Statistics 19
6. IV William Playfair and the Invention of Modern Graphics 27
7. V Statistics and Graphics in the Nineteenth Century 41
8. VI Statistics and Graphics Enter Professional Historiography 51
9. VII The New History 57
10. VIII Representational Images in Historiography: Persistence and Transformation 65
11. Epilogue 93