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Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2nd Edition) Marnie Hughes-Warrington 442pp. Paperback. Routledge Press, Oxford, 2008

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Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a supberb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from Ancient China, Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages, to the contemporary world. From Bede to Braudel, Ranke to Ricoeur, Froissant to Foucault, this book offers an accessible and unified introduction to the ideas of key thinkers in the field.

This new edition includes:

* updated entries that reflect scholarship published since mid-1999
* new entries on Christine de Pizan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Keith Jenkins, Richard J. Evans
* an introduction to the idea of historiography
* an index

Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information; a summary and discussion of the subject's approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Bede
Chapter 2: Marc Bloch
Chapter 3: Fernand Braudel
Chapter 4: E. H. Carr
Chapter 5: R. G. Collingwood
Chapter 6: Benedetto Croce
Chapter 7: Natalie Zemon Davies
Chapter 8: Christine de Pizan
Chapter 9: Wilhelm Dilthey
Chapter 10: Cheikh Anta Diop
Chapter 11: G. R. Elton
Chapter 12: Richard J. Evans
Chapter 13: Lucien Febvre
Chapter 14: Michel Foucault
Chapter 15: Jean Froissart
Chapter 16: Pieter Geyl
Chapter 17: Edward Gibbon
Chapter 18: Gregory of Tours
Chapter 19: G. W. F. Hegel
Chapter 20: Martin Heidegger
Chapter 21: Carl Gustav Hempel
Chapter 22: Herodotus
Chapter 23: Eric Hobsbawn
Chapter 24: Ibu Khaldun
Chapter 25: Keith Jenkins
Chapter 26: Immanuel Kant
Chapter 27: Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Chapter 28: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Chapter 29: Livy
Chapter 30: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Chapter 31: Karl Marx
Chapter 32: Jules Michelet
Chapter 33: Theodore William Moody
Chapter 34: Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 35: Michael Oakeshott
Chapter 36: Polybius
Chapter 37: Leopold Von Ranke
Chapter 38: Paul Ricoeur
Chapter 39: Joan Wallach Scott
Chapter 40: Sima Qian
Chapter 41: Oswald Spengler
Chapter 42: Tacitus
Chapter 43: A. J. P. Taylor
Chapter 44: E. P. Thompson
Chapter 45: Thucydides
Chapter 46: Arnold J. Toynbee
Chapter 47: Frederick Jackson Turner
Chapter 48: Giambattista Vico
Chapter 49: W. H. Walsh
Chapter 50: Hayden White

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Author Details

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University, Australia, and has previously taught at both the University of Oxford and the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

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