Fifty Key Thinkers on History [Paperback]

Fifty Key Thinkers on Historyis an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include:

• Herodotus
• Bede
• Ibn Khaldun
• E. H. Carr
• Fernand Braudel
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michel Foucault
• Edward Gibbon

Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinkers approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study.

Introduction  Bede  Marc Bloch  Fernand Braudel  E. H. Carr  R. G. Collingwood  Benedetto Croce  Natalie Zemon Davis  Christine de Pizan  Wilhelm Dilthey  G. R. Elton  Richard J. Evans  Lucien Febvre  Niall Ferguson  Michel Foucault  Jean Froissart  Pieter Geyl  Edward Gibbons  Gregory of Tours  Ranajit Guha  G. W. F. Hegel  Martin Heidegger  Herodotus  Eric Hobsbawm  Ibn Khaldun  Keith Jenkins  Immanuel Kant  Thomas Samuel Kuhn  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie  Livy  Thomas Babington Macaulay  Niccolo Machiavelli  Karl Marx Willl“t