Fifty Key Thinkers on History

Fifty Key Thinkers on History 2e is a superb 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 contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia. From Bede to Braudel; Ranke to Rowbotham; Foucault to Fukuyama, 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, Fredrich Nietzche, Keith Jenkins, Richard E. Evans an introduction offering a chronologically ordered account of the idea of history from ancient to (post)modern times A full 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 web sites.Hughes-Warrington, Marnie is the author of 'Fifty Key Thinkers on History ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415366519 and ISBN 0415366518.