The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Andrew Feldherr received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1991 and is currently Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Latin literature, primarily historiography and the poetry of the late republic and early empire.Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale.

• 1. Early Mesopotamia ; 2. Later Mesopotamia ; 3. Ancient Egypt ; 4. Historiography in Ancient Israel ; 5. Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing ; 6. Early Greek Poetry as/and History ; 7. The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose ; 8. Hellenistic Historiography ; 9. Josephus ; 10. History and Inscriptions, Rome ; 11. Annales and Analysis ; 12. Imperial History and Biography at Rome ; 13. The Greek Historians of Imperial Rome ; 14. Imperial Christian Historiography ; 15. History and Inscriptions (China) ; 16. Chinese History and Philosophy ; 17. Pre-Qin Annals ; 18. Historiography and Empire ; 19. Sima Qian and the Shiji ; 20. The Han Histories ; 21. Historiography of the Six Dynasties Period (220-581) ; 22. Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks ; 23. Historical Traditions in Early India: c.1000 BC to c. AD 600 ; 24. Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD ; 25. Epilogue

The Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors.