From Herodotus to H-Net by Jeremy Popkin

From Herodotus to H-Net by Jeremy Popkin

From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography offers a concise but comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. Clearly written and organized, it shows how the same issues that historians debate today were already recognized in past centuries, and how the efforts of historians in the past remain relevant today. Balanced and fair-minded, the book covers the development of modern academic scholarship, but also helps students appreciate the contributions of popular historians and of the many forms of public history. Often drawing on what historians from Edward Gibbon to Natalie Zemon Davis have written about their own careers, From Herodotus to H-Net brings the discipline of history alive for students and general readers.

From Herodotus to H-Net is a concise and inclusive primer on the history of history-writing from ancient times to the presentIt will prove invaluable to students of history at any level. It both recounts the past and points to the future of the study of human experience across the ages." * Carol Gluck, Columbia University *
This is a superb book: thoughtful, clearly written, remarkably brief, and absolutely essential for any student taking a historiography course." * Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology *
Popkin's voice is clear, resolute, and compelling, taking us on a journey through historical trends from the vantage of the storyteller. Like the best writing in history, this text helps the reader to invest in each trend and development through clear connections made by the author. * Kyle Livie, San Francisco State University *
The book is impressively global in its reach, examining the development of historiography in Asia, Latin America and the Islamic World in addition to the United States and Europe. It also provides a thorough overview of the rapidly changing nature of contemporary historical practice, as well as an introduction to graduate school and academic and public history careers. Highly recommended." * Nicole Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University *
From Herodotus to H-Net will likely become a standard text in historical methods classes." * Jared Poley, Georgia State University *

Jeremy D. Popkin is the William T. Bryan Chair of History at the University of Kentucky. Popkin attended Reed College, UCSD, and UC-Berkeley as an undergraduate, and did graduate work at Harvard University and the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. Popkin has written or edited more than twenty books, including pathbreaking studies of the French and Haitian Revolutions and on the relationship between history and autobiography. Popkin has also taught courses on the Holocaust, and he regularly teaches seminars on historiography.

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ISBN 13	9780199923007
ISBN 10	0199923000
Title	From Herodotus to H-Net
Author	Jeremy Popkin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2015-10-08
Number of pages	272
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