A Global History of Modern Historiography (Paperback)

Preface and acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Part I: Historiographical traditions in the world: A view of the eighteenth century.  Part II: The advance of nationalism and nationalist history: The West, the Middle East and India in the nineteenth century.  Part III: Academic history and the shaping of historical profession: Transforming historical study in the nineteenth?century West and East Asia.  Part IV: Historical writings in the shadow of two world wars: The crisis of historicism and modern historiography.  Part V: The appeal of nationalist history around the world: Historical studies in the Middle East and Asia in the twentieth century.
Part VI: New challenges in the post-war period: from social history to postmodernism and postcolonialism.
Glossary.  Further reading.  Index.