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Price: $185.00

Format:
Hardback 704 pp.
6 maps and 4 images, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0199218153

ISBN-13:
9780199218158

Publication date:
March 2011

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600

Edited by Andrew Feldherr and Grant Hardy

Series : Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume I of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until ca. AD 600. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the first of five volumes in a series that will explore representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Readership : Specialists in Classical, East Asian, South Asian, and Near Eastern History and Literature; historians and specialists in comparative literature; students of history and interested laypersons.

1. Piotr Michalowski: Early Mesopotamia
2. Mario Liverani: Later Mesopotamia
3. John Baines: Ancient Egypt
4. John Van Seters: Historiography in Ancient Israel
5. Robin Osborne: Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing
6. Deborah Boedeker: Early Greek Poetry as/and History
7. Jonas Grethlein: The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose
8. John Dillery: Hellenistic Historiography
9. Jonathan J. Price: Josephus
10. Alison E. Cooley: History and Inscriptions, Rome
11. Uwe Walter: Annales and Analysis
12. Ellen O'Gorman: Imperial History and Biography at Rome
13. David S. Potter: The Greek Historians of Imperial Rome
14. Michael Whitby: Imperial Christian Historiography
15. Edward L. Shaughnessy: History and Inscriptions (China)
16. David Schaberg: Chinese History and Philosophy
17. Wai-yee Li: Pre-Qin Annals
18. Mark Edward Lewis: Historiography and Empire
19. William H. Nienhauser, Jr.: Sima Qian and the Shiji
20. Steven W. Durrant: The Han Histories
21. Albert E. Dien: Historiography of the Six Dynasties Period (220-581)
22. John Kieschnick: Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks
23. Romila Thapar: Historical Traditions in Early India: c.1000 BC to c. AD 600
24. Romila Thapar: Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD
25. G. E. R. Lloyd: Epilogue

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Andrew Feldherr received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1991 and is currently Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Latin literature, primarily historiography and the poetry of the late republic and early empire. Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale.

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Special Features

  • Includes new essays by an international team of leading scholars.
  • Uniquely detailed cross-cultural overview of historical writing.
  • Thematic chapters on the connection of history with inscriptions, philosophy, and empire facilitate cross-cultural compaisons, as well as unusually extensive treatment of Egyptian and South Asian historiography.
  • Includes timetables and select bibliographies of key primary and secondary sources which help to orientate non-specialist readers.