4. From Ancient to Medieval Historical Thinking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. PART I
6. 2. The Invention of History: From Homer to Herodotus 19
7. 3. The Ch’in Unification (221 B.C.) in Chinese Historiography 31
8. 4. From Ancient to Medieval Historical Thinking 45
9. 5. New Directions in Northern Sung Historical Thinking (960-1126) 59
10. 6. Turning Points in Islamic Historical Practice 89
11. 7. The Historicization of Classical Learning in Ming-Ch’ing China 101
12. PART II
13. 8. Conceptions of Scientific History in the Nineteenth-Century West 147
14. 9. National Histories and World Systems: Writing Japan, France, and the United States 163
15. 10. China’s Search for National History 185
16. 11. Nationalism and African Historiography 209
17. 12. The Subaltern School and the Ascendancy of Indian History 237
18. 13. A Critique of the Postmodern Turn in Western Historiography 271
19. 14. Postmodernism and Chinese History 287
20. 15. Postscript 325
21. Contributors 339
22. Glossary 343
23. Index 353