The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 3: 1400-1800

Jose Rabasa teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His publications include: Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (1993); Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest (2000); and Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (2010). ; Masayuki Sato was born in 1946 in Japan. He read Economics, Philosophy, and History at Keio University and Cambridge University. After teaching in Kyoto, He was invited to Yamanashi University and is now Professor of Social Studies in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. He was President of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (2005-10) and a Programme Officer of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007-2010). His latest books are Historiographical Time and Space [Rekishi ninshiki no jiku

Offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from c.1400 to c.1800.

Editors' Introduction; 1 Achim Mittag: Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing; 2 Pamela Kyle Crossley: The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion; 3 On-cho Ng: Private Historiography in Late Imperial China; 4 Masayuki Sato: A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing; 5 Don Baker: Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea; 6 Geoff Wade: Southeast Asian Historical Writing; 7 Asim Roy: Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India 1350-1750; 8 Christoph Marcinkowski: Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501-1722/36); 9 Baki Tezcan: Ottoman Historical Writing; 10 Paul E. Lovejoy: Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800; 11 Donald R. Kelley: Philology and History; 12 Peter N. Miller: Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc; 13 Peter Burke: History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates; 14 Michael A. Pesenson and Jennifer Spock: Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine; 15 Howard Louthan: Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe; 16 Markus Volkel: German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment; 17 William J. Connell: Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative; 18 Edoardo Tortorolo: Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800; 19 Chantal Grell: History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV; 20 Guido Abbattista: The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes; 21 Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: Writing History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474-1600; 22 Karen Skovgaard-Petersen: Historical Writing in Scandinavia; 23 Daniel Woolf: Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment; 24 David Allan: Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment; 25 Karen O'Brien: English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815; 26 Diogo Ramada Curto: European Historiography on the East; 27 Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske: A New History for a 'New World': The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing; 28 Elizabeth Hill Boone: Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genre; 29 Jose Rabasa: Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography; 30 Catherine Julien: Inca Historical Forms; 31 Neil L. Whitehead: Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500-1800; 32 Jorge Canizares-Esguerra: Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates; 33 David Read: Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America