Ernst Breisach

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organised, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopaedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present. With compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit,...