Description

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece
and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to the contemporary world. From Bede to Braudel, Ranke to Ricoeur, Froissant to Foucault, this book offers an accessible and unified introduction to the ideas of key thinkers in the field. This new edition includes:

- updated entries that reflect scholarship published since mid-1999 -new entries on Christine de Pizan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich, Keith Jenkins, Richard J. Evans
- an introduction to the idea of historiography
- an index

Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information; a summary and discussion of the subject’s approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites.