| Description |
1 online resource (391 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Historiographical traditions in the world: A view of the eighteenth century -- Where do we begin? -- Transcultural comparisons -- Characteristics of historiographical thought in different cultures -- The West -- Characteristics of Western historiography -- The emergence of an Enlightenment worldview -- Erudition and critical historical scholarship -- Enlightenment historiography -- German forms of Enlightenment |
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From universal history to Eurocentric ideas of progress -- The Middle East -- The rise of Islam and the origin of Muslim historiography -- Main styles in Muslim historiography -- The bureaucratization and secularization of historiography -- The decline of the Muslim world and Muslim historiography? -- India -- Western views on Indian historical consciousness -- Indian forms of historical writing -- Social and intellectual transformations during the early modern period -- East and Southeast Asia -- Shamanism and history: The origin of the shi -- The formation of Confucian historiography |
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The History Bureau and dynastic history -- The spread and influence of dynastic historiography -- "To seek the truth from facts": The rise of evidential learning -- 2 The advance of nationalism and nationalist history: The West, the Middle East, and India in the nineteenth century -- Historiography in a revolutionary age between 1789 and 1848 -- The political context -- Romanticism and historiography -- The impact of emergent nationalism on historiography -- The relationship between professional scholarship and nationalism -- The liberal reinterpretation of the Middle Ages |
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The colonial perspective and historiography -- The decline of liberalism in historiography -- Ideas of progress and of crisis -- Hegel's philosophy of history -- Nationalism and the transformation of historiography in the Middle East -- The Muslim "discovery" of Europe -- Whose pharaohs? (Re)writing the history of Egypt -- National identity and historical writing -- Bridging the old and the new: The encyclopedists and the neochroniclers -- Nationalism and the transformation of Indian historiography -- Historiography during early colonialism |
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The new pedagogy and the emergence of a modern historical consciousness -- Religious revivalism and the search for a glorious past -- The rationalist paradigm -- The birth of the nationalist paradigm -- Nationalism, communalism, and historical writing -- Secular narratives and the emergence of economic nationalism -- 3 Academic history and the shaping of the historical profession: Transforming historical study in the nineteenth-century West and East Asia -- The cult of science and the nation-state paradigm (1848-1890) -- The political context of historiography |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The social context of historiography |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wang, Q. Edward
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Mukherjee, Supriya
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| ISBN |
9781134856404 |
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1134856407 |
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