General Introduction: The Project of Historiography (Michael Bentley)

Part I: Beginnings – East and West

Introduction (Paul Cartledge)

1. The Evolution of Two Asian Historiographical Traditions (David Morgan)

2. Historiography and Ancient Greek Self-definition (Paul Cartledge)

3. Re-reading the Roman Historians (Michael Comber)

4. The Religion of Rome from Monarchy to Principate (J. A. North)

5. Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West (Peter Heather)

6. Modernizing the Historiography of Rural Labour: An Unwritten Agenda (Jairus Banaji)

Part II: The Medieval World

Introduction: Regarding Medievalists: Contexts and Approaches (Julia M. H. Smith)

7. The Historiography of the Medieval State (Susan Reynolds)

8. Saladin and the Third Crusade: A Case Study in Historiography and the Historical Novel (Robert Irwin)

9. Family, Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages (Janet L. Nelson)

10. The Medieval Nobility in Twentieth-Century Historiography (Timothy Reuter)

11. Medieval Military Historiography (Bernard S. Bachrach)

12. Popular Religion in the Central and Later Middle Ages (Peter Biller)

Part III: Early Modern Historiography

Introductory Survey: From the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century (G. E. Aylmer)

13. The Idea of Early Modern History (Wolfgang Reinhard)

14. The Scientific Revolution (Stephen Pumfrey)

15. The Writing of Early Modern European Intellectual History, 1945-1995 (D. R. Woolf)

16. The English Reformation, 1945-1995 (Patrick Collinson)

17. Popular Culture in the Early Modern West (James Sharpe)

18. Revisionism in Britain (Ronald Hutton)

Part IV: Reflecting on the Modern Age

Introduction: Approaches to Modernity: Western Historiography since the Enlightenment (Michael Bentley)

IV.1. Revolution and Ideology

19. The Historiography of the French Revolution (Jacques Solé)

20. The Soviet Revolution (Catherine Merridale)

21. The Historiography of National Socialism (Jane Caplan)

22. Modern Italy – Changing Historical Perspectives since 1945 (John A. Davis)

23. The Critique of Orientialism (Ulrike Freitag)

IV.2. Area Studies

24. The Historiography of Modern China (Pamela Kyle Crossley)

25. The English-Language Historiography of Modern Japan (Alan Smith)

26. Modern Indian Historiography (C. A. Bayly)

27. History in Africa (David Birmingham)

28. Modern American Historiography (Carl N. Degler)

29. Latin America (Alan Knight)

Part V: Contexts for the Writing of History

V.1. Hinterlands

30. Philosophy and Historiography (William Dray)

31. History and Anthropology (Jordan Goodman)

32. Archaeology and Historiography (Guy Halsall)

33. The History of Western Art History (Nigel Llewellyn)

V.2. Approaches

34. The Historical Narrative (Peter Munz)

35. The Annales Experiment (George Huppert)

36. Marxist Historiography (S. H. Rigby)

37. Women, Gender and the Fin de Siècle (Olwen Hufton)

38. World History (R. I. Moore)

39. Archives, the Historian and the Future (Michael Moss)

Index