The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume 1. Beginnings to AD 600

Edited by Andrew Feldherr, Grant Hardy. — Oxford University Press, 2011. — 672 p.The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume, multi-authored scholarly survey of the history of historical writing across the globe. It is a chronological history of humanitys attempts to conserve, recover, and narrate its past with considerable attention paid to different global traditions and their points of comparison with Western historiography. Volume I 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 c. AD 600.Volume 2
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