A History of Histories

John Burrow was Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex before becoming Professor of European Thought at Oxford. His earlier books includeEvolution and Society: AStudy in Victorian Social Theory;A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past,which won the Wolfson Prize for History;Gibbon;andThe Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 18481914.He is a Fellow of the British Academy; an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; and in 2008 will be Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Williams College in Massachusetts.Burrow, John is the author of 'A History of Histories', published 2008 under ISBN 9780375413117 and ISBN 0375413111.