A History of Histories : Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

A critical analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, offers a close-up look at the work of individual historians--including Herodotus, Tacitus, Bede, Gibbon, and Parkman--and how they presented the past in terms of their individual perspectives, beliefs, circumstances, goals, and historical periods. Reprint.