Jaume Aurell

30 Great Books That Made History (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the books that made - and-remade - the history we know so well are often forgotten.

In this panoramic book, distinguished historian Jaume Aurell sets out to introduce readers to a new canon of historical writing. Taking a global approach, he places the work of Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon, Michelet and Braudel alongside masterpieces from a myriad of periods and civilizations, from Sima Qian, Anna Komnene, al-Masudi and Fukuzawa Yukichi to Edmundo O'Gorman, C. L. R. James and Natalie Zemon Davis. At the same time, Aurell argues that we should not see these books as a definitive canon - instead, any canon should be seen as a list-in-progress to be contested and debated anew with each generation. It is only by being exposed to these diverse and deeply significant works that we can fully perceive the shape of the discipline, and carve out a new appreciation for the art of history writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509562428
• Artikelnr.: 75996939

Autorenporträt

Jaume Aurell is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of History at the University of Navarra.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Greek Ethnography: Herodotus' Histories
2. Greek Politics: Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War
3. Jewish Drama: The Bible
4. Chinese Dynaties: Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian
5. Indian Genealogies: Itihasa-Puranas
6. Christian Great Narratives: Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History
7. Islamic Cosmovisions: al-Masudi's Meadows of Gold
8. Byzantine Chronicles: Anna Komnene's Alexiad
9. Icelandic Genealogies: Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla
10. Iberian Autobiographies: James I of Aragon's Book of Deeds
11. Renaissance: Francesco Guicciardini's History of Italy
12. Enlightenment: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
13. Romanticism: Jules Michelet's History of the French Revolution
14. Historicism: Leopold von Ranke's History of the Latin and Teutonic
Nations
15. Liberalism: Thomas Macaulay's The History of England
16. Westernizing Japan: Fukuzawa Yukichi's An Outline of a Theory of
Civilization
17. Preserving Africa: Carl Christian Reindorf's The History of the Gold
Coast
18. Revisioning China: Gu Jiegang's Gushibian
19. Projecting India: Jawaharlal Nehru's Glimpses of World History
20. Rethinking Latin America: Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America
21. Modernism: Henry Adams's The Education of Henry James
22. Impressionism: Johan Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages
23. Annales: Marc Bloch's The Royal Touch
24. Structuralism: Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean
25. Postmodernism: Hayden White's Metahistory
26. Race: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins
27. Class: Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
28. Women: Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre
29. Subaltern: Ranajit Guha's Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
30. Gender: Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman