Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I

pp 17-18

2 - The Invention of History: From Homer to Herodotus

pp 19-30

3 - The Ch’in Unification (221 B.C.) in Chinese Historiography

pp 31-44

4 - From Ancient to Medieval Historical Thinking

pp 45-58

5 - New Directions in Northern Sung Historical Thinking (960–1126)

pp 59-88

6 - Turning Points in Islamic Historical Practice

pp 89-100

7 - The Historicization of Classical Leaning in Ming-Ch’ing China

pp 101-144

Part II

pp 145-146

8 - Conceptions of Scientific History in the Nineteenth-Century West

pp 147-162

9 - National Histories and World Systems: Writing Japan, France, and the United States

pp 163-184

10 - China’s Search for National History

pp 185-208

11 - Nationalism and African Historiography

pp 209-236

12 - The Subaltern School and the Ascendancy of Indian History

pp 237-270

13 - A Critique of the Postmodern Turn in Western Historiography

pp 271-286

14 - Postmodernism and Chinese History

pp 287-324

15 - Postscript

pp 325-338

Contributors

pp 339-342

Glossary

pp 343-352

Index

pp 353-362