The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 3: 1400-1800

Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Emplores the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800, written by an international team of subject experts
Includes timelines and select bibliographies of key primary and secondary sources
Includes chapters on non-conventional forms of historical thought such as Mesoamerican pictographic histories

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 3: 1400-1800

Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Description

Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 3: 1400-1800

Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Editors' Introduction
1. Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing, Achim Mittag
2. The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion, Pamela Kyle Crossley
3. Private Historiography in Late Imperial China, On-cho Ng
4. A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing, Masayuki Sato
5. Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea, Don Baker
6. Southeast Asian Historical Writing, Geoff Wade
7. Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India 1350-1750, Asim Roy
8. Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501-1722/36), Christoph Marcinkowski
9. Ottoman Historical Writing, Baki Tezcan
10. Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800, Paul E. Lovejoy
11. Philology and History, Donald R. Kelley
12. Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc, Peter N. Miller
13. History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates, Peter Burke
14. Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine, Michael A. Pesenson and Jennifer Spock
15. Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe, Howard Louthan
16. German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, Markus Volkel
17. Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative, William J. Connell
18. Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800, Edoardo Tortorolo
19. History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV, Chantal Grell
20. The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes, Guido Abbattista
21. Writing History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474-1600, Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske
22. Historical Writing in Scandinavia, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen
23. Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment, Daniel Woolf
24. Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment, David Allan
25. English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815, Karen O'Brien
26. European Historiography on the East, Diogo Ramada Curto
27. A New History for a 'New World': The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing, Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske
28. Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genre, Elizabeth Hill Boone
29. Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography, Jose Rabasa
30. Inca Historical Forms, Catherine Julien
31. Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500-1800, Neil L. Whitehead
32. Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
33. Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America, David Read

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 3: 1400-1800

Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Author Information

Jose Rabasa teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His publications include: Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (1993); Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest (2000); and Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (2010).

Masayuki Sato was born in 1946 in Japan. He read Economics, Philosophy, and History at Keio University and Cambridge University. After teaching in Kyoto, He was invited to Yamanashi University and is now Professor of Social Studies in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. He was President of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (2005-10) and a Programme Officer of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007-2010). His latest books are Historiographical Time and Space [Rekishi ninshiki no jiku] (Tokyo, 2004) and Time in World History [Sekaishi ni okeru jikan] (Tokyo, 2009).

Edoardo Tortarolo was born in Italy. Educated at the University of Turin, he has taught at several Italian universities, at the University of Leipzig (1997-8), and at Northwestern University (2010). In 2006 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of several books on the political culture of the European Enlightenment.

Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities, including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of The Oxford History of Historical Writing (and co-editor of volume 5 in the series) he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998). His single volume textbook, A Global History of History, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.

Contributors:

Guido Abbattista, Professor of Modern History, the University of Trieste, Italy
David Allan, Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews
Don Baker, Professor of Korean History and Civilization, the Department of Asian Studies, the University of British Columbia, Canada
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Professor of Art History, Tulane University, New Orleans
Peter Burke, former Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, the University of Texas at Austin
William J. Connell, Professor of History and holds the La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University
Pamela Kyle Crossley, Professor of History, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, United States
Chantal Grell, the Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin
Catherine Julien, Professor of History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Donald R. Kelley, James Westfall Thompson professor of history
Howard Louthan, Professor of History, the University of Florida
Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University
Christoph Marcinkowski, Principal Research Fellow at IAIS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Peter N. Miller, Professor and Dean, the Bard Graduate Center, New York City
Achim Mittag, Professor for Chinese Studies, the University of Tübingen
On-cho Ng, Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Asian Studies,Pennsylvania State University
Karen O'Brien, Professor of English Literature, the University of Warwick
Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske, Post-Doctoral Fellow from the Social Science Research Council of Canada, Queen's University
Michael A. Pesenson, Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin
José Rabasa, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
David Read, Professor of English, the University of Missouri
Asim Roy, Honorary Research Fellow, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania
Karen Skovgaard-Pertersen, research librarian, the Royal Library, Copenhagen
Jennifer Spock, Associate Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, the University of California
Edoardo Tortarolo, Professor of Early Modern History, the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Neil L. Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology, the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Markus Völkel, Professor of European Intellectual History and Historical Methodology, the University of Rostock, Germany
Geoff Wade, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Daniel Woolf, Professor of History, Queen's University in Kingston, Canada