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Tanaka, Stefan. “Alternative National Histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and Academic Historiography.”

In Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective, edited by Eckhardt Fuchs and

Benedikt Stuchtey, 119–138. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

—. Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Twitchett, Denis Crispin. The Writing of Official History under the T’ang. Cambridge, U.K., and New

York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Unger, Jonathan, ed. Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary

China. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. See especially chapters by Lawrence R. Sullivan, Geremie

Barmé, and Tom Fisher.

Wang, Q. Edward. Inventing China through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography. Albany:

State University of New York Press, 2001.

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Archambault, Paul. Seven French Chroniclers: Witnesses to History. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University

Press, 1974.

Dalven, Rae. Anna Comnena. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Dorey, T. A., ed. Latin Historians: Chapters by E. A. Thompson [and Others]. London: Routledge and

Kegan Paul, 1966.

Fornara, Charles W. The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome. Berkeley: University of California

Press, 1983.

Goffart, Walter A. The Narrators of Barbarian History (AD 550–800: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede,

and Paul the Deacon). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Gransden, Antonia. Historical Writing in England. 2 vols. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,

1974–1982.

Hartog, François. “The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept from Homer to Herodotus.”

History and Theory 39 (2000): 384–395.

Hay, Denys. Annalists and Historians. London: Methuen, 1977.

Hillgarth, J. N. “Spanish Historiography and Iberian Reality.” History and Theory 24 (1985): 23–43.

Linehan, Peter. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Long and definitive

treatment of its subject.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography. Berkeley: University of California

Press, 1990.

—. Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press,

1977.

Rohrbacher, David. The Historians of Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

Smalley, Beryl. Historians in the Middle Ages. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.

Spiegel, Gabrielle. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century

France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Syme, Ronald. Tacitus. 2 vols. 1958. Reprint, Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.

EUROPE: RENAISSANCE THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Allan, David. Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,

1993.

Barret-Kriegel, Blandine. Les historiens et la monarchie. 4 vols. Paris: Presses universitaires de France,

1988.

Burke, Peter. The Renaissance Sense of the Past. London: Edward Arnold, 1969.

Cochrane, Eric. Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1981.

Chickering, Roger. Karl Lamprecht: a German Academic Life (1856–1915). Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:

Humanities Press, 1993.

Huppert, George. The Idea of Perfect History: Historical Erudition and Historical Philosophy in Renaissance

France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970.

Johannesson, Kurt. The Renaissance of the Goths in Sixteenth-Century Sweden: Johannes and Olaus Magnus

as Politicians and Historians. Translated and edited by James Larson. Berkeley: University of California

Press, 1991.

Kelley, Donald R. Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship: Language, Law, and History in the French

Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

Knowles, David. Great Historical Enterprises: Problems in Monastic History. London: Nelson, 1963.

O’Brien, Karen. Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon. Cambridge,

U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Pocock, J. G. A. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the

Seventeenth Century: A Reissue with a Retrospect. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Pocock, J. G. A. Barbarism and Religion. 3 vols. to date. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,

1999–. Brilliant exposition of Gibbon’s intellectual environment; far wider-ranging than the title

suggests. Vol. 3 is especially good as an interpretive history of European historiography and key concepts

such as “decline and fall.”

Segal, Lester A. Historical Consciousness and Religious Tradition in Azariah de’ Rossi’s Me’or ‘Einayim.

Philadelphia, New York, and Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Skovgaard-Petersen, Karen. Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588–1648): Studies in the Latin

Histories of Johannes Portanus and Johannes Meursius. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press,

2002.

Wilcox, Donald. The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge,

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Woolf, D. R. The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2003.

EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

Ahokas, Jaakko. A History of Finnish Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.

Ankersmit, F. R. “The Postmodernist Privatization of the Past.” In the author’s Historical Representation,

149-175. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Baets, Antoon de. Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide, 1945–2000. Westport, Conn.:

Greenwood Press, 2002.

Bromke, Adam. The Meaning and Uses of Polish History. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1987.

Burke, Peter. The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929–1989. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford

University Press, 1990.

Burrow, J. W. A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge

University Press, 1981.

Dorpalen, Andreas. German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach. Detroit, Mich.:

Wayne State University Press, 1985.

Enteen, George M. The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat: M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians.

University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 1978.

Evans, Richard J. Telling Lies about Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. London:

Verso, 2002.

Gooch, G. P. History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century. 2nd ed., revised. London and New York:

Longmans, Green, 1952. First published in 1913 and revised by its author, an Acton-influenced

historian, in 1952; though dated, it remains useful as an index of pre-World War I attitudes to the

nineteenth century’s historiographic achievements.

Hasquin, Hervé, ed. Histoire et historiens depuis 1830 en Belgique. Brussels: Éditions de l’Université de

Bruxelles, 1981.

Herbst, Jurgen. The German Historical School in American Scholarship: A Study in the Transfer of Culture.

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965.

Hiemstra, Paul A. Alexandru D. Xenopol and the Development of Romanian Historiography. New York

and London: Garland, 1987.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington. Reprint of 1968 edition.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Hubbard, William H., et al., eds. Making a Historical Culture: Historiography in Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian

University Press, 1995.

Iggers, Georg G. The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from

Herder to the Present. Rev. ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

Iggers, Georg G., and James M. Powell, eds. Leopold von Ranke and the Shaping of the Historical Discipline.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

Jacobitti, Edmund E. Revolutionary Humanism and Historicism in Modern Italy. New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1981.

Krapauskas, Virgil. Nationalism and Historiography: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Historicism.

Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 2000.

Krieger, Leonard. Ranke: The Meaning of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Lehmann, Hartmut, and James Van Horn Melton, eds. Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography

from the 1930s to the 1950s. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute and Cambridge,

U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Linenthal, Edward Tabor, and Tom Engelhardt, eds. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles

for the American Past. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.

Lingelbach, Gabriele. “The Historical Discipline in the United States: Following the German Model?”

In Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective, edited by Eckhardt Fuchs and

Benedikt Stuchtey, 182–204. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

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Mazlish, Bruce. The Riddle of History: The Great Speculators from Vico to Freud. New York and London:

Harper and Row, 1966. A still useful and entertaining general introduction to select thinkers,

somewhat prone to judgmental criticism.

Mazour, Anatole G. Modern Russian Historiography. Rev. ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Meinecke, Friedrich. Historism: The Rise of a New Historical Outlook. Translated by J. E. Anderson.

Translation revised by H. D. Schmidt. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. 1972.

Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity” Question and the American Historical Profession.

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Pók, Attila. “Scholarly and Non-Scholarly Functions of Historical Research Institutes: An Outline of

the Case of Hungary in International Context.” In History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation

of a Discipline. Proceedings of an International Conference, Uppsala, September, 1994, edited

by Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-Brause, 169–177. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och

antikvitets akademien, 1996.

Raphael, Lutz. “Organizational Frameworks of University Life and their Impact on Historiographical

Practice.” In History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline. Proceedings of an

International Conference, Uppsala, September, 1994, edited by Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-

Brause, 151–167. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och antikvitets akademien, 1996.

Riis, Carsten. Religion, Politics, and Historiography in Bulgaria. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs,

2002.

Shelton, Anita K. The Democratic Idea in Polish History and Historiography: Franciszek Bujak

(1875–1953). Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1989.

Shteppa, Konstantin F. Russian Historians and the Soviet State. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University

Press, 1962.

Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard

University Press, 1998.

Smith, Leslie F. Modern Norwegian Historiography. Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1962.

Stieg, Margaret F. The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals. University: University

of Alabama Press, 1986.

Taylor, M. Brook. Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English

Canada. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Torstendahl, Rolf, ed. An Assessment of Twentieth-Century Historiography: Professionalism, Methodologies,

Writings. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och antikvitets akademien, 2000.

—. “Fact, Truth, and Text: The Quest for a Firm Basis for Historical Knowledge around 1900.”

History and Theory 42 (2003): 305–331. Interesting evaluation of nineteenth-century methodology

treatises, demonstrating significant differences among a number of them.

Vardy, Steven Bela. Modern Hungarian Historiography. Boulder, Colo: East European Monographs, 1976.

Vernadsky, George. Russian Historiography: A History. Edited by Sergei Pushkarev. Translated by Nickolas

Lupinin. Belmont, Mass.: Norland Publishing, 1978.

White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1973.

LATIN AMERICA

Adorno, Rolena. Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. 2nd ed. Austin: University of

Texas Press, 1986.

Burns, E. Bradford, ed. Perspectives on Brazilian History. New York and London: Columbia University

Press, 1967.

Carey, David, Jr. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Tuscaloosa: University

of Alabama Press, 2001. Fascinating analysis of indigenous Guatemalan oral traditions and memories,

by a historian rather than an anthropologist.

Cline, Howard F., ed. Latin American History: Essays on its Study and Teaching, 1898–1965. 2 vols.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967. Somewhat dated but still useful collection of essays, principally

on U.S. approaches rather than indigenous ones.

Cormier, Loretta. “Decolonizing History: Ritual Transformation of the Past among the Guajá of Eastern

Amazonia.” In Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, edited by Neil L. Whitehead, 123–139.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Recent example of the ethnohistorical

approach (informed by postcolonial discourse) to one variety of the Latin American sense of the

past, among indigenous peoples.

Griffin, Charles C., ed. Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature. Austin: University of Texas

Press, 1971.

Hill, Jonathan D., ed. Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Relations between myth, legend, history, and consciousness

among various native populations.

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Robinson, John L. Bartolomé Mitre: Historian of the Americas. Washington, D.C.: University Press of

America, 1982.

Rabasa, José. Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism. Norman and

London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Thomas, Jack Ray. Biographical Dictionary of Latin American Historians and Historiography. Westport,

Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. Brief entries; useful as a reference tool.

Wilgus, A. Curtis. The Historiography of Latin America: A Guide to Historical Writing, 1500-1800.

Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975.

Woll, Allen. A Functional Past: The Uses of History in Nineteenth-Century Chile. Baton Rouge and London:

Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Excellent study of relations between history and politics

in a newly-independent nation.

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, Conn.:

Yale University Press, 1992.

Chejne, Anwar G. “The Concept of History in the Modern Arab World.” Studies in Islam: Quarterly

Journal of Indian Institute of Islamic Studies 4 (1967): 1–31.

Choueiri, Youssef M. Arab History and the Nation-State: A Study in Modern Arab Historiography 1820-

1980. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

Crabbs, Jack A., Jr. The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Detroit: Wayne State University

Press; Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1984.

Dengler, Ian C. “Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: the Classical Age.” In Women in the Muslim

World, edited by Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, 229-244. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University

Press, 1978.

Duri, A. A. The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs. Edited and translated by Lawrence I. Conrad.

Introduction by Fred M. Donner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Kafadar, Cemal. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1995. Useful summary of the sources and modern historiography of the empire.

Keddie, Nikki R., and Beth Baron. Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and

Gender. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991. See especially introduction by Keddie.

Khalidi, Tarif. Arab Historical Thought in the Classical Period. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge

University Press, 1994.

—. Islamic Historiography: The Histories of Mas‘u¯dι¯. Albany: SUNY Press, 1975.

Lewis, Bernard, and P. M. Holt, eds. Historians of the Middle East. London: Oxford University Press,

1962.

Mahdi, Muhsin. Ibn Khaldûn’s Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philosophic Foundation of the Science

of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Meisami, Julie Scott. Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press, 1999.

Mernissi, Fatima. Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological Enquiry. Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

Nashat, Guity, and Lois Beck, eds. Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Urbana: University

of Illinois Press, 2003.

Robinson, Chase F. Islamic Historiography. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University

Press, 2003. Invaluable introduction with useful glossary of terms.

Rosenthal, Franz. A History of Muslim Historiography. 2nd rev. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1968.

Taher, Mohamed, ed. Medieval Muslim Historiography. Vol. 5 of Encyclopaedic Survey of Islamic Culture.

New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997.

SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA

Baha¯rista¯n-i-Sha¯hι¯: A Chronicle of Mediaeval Kashmir. Translated and edited by K. N. Pandit. Calcutta:

Firma KLM, 1991.

Ganguly, Dilip Kumar. History and Historians in Ancient India. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1984.

Guha, Ranajit. History at the Limit of World-History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

—. An Indian Historiography of India: A Nineteenth-Century Agenda and Its Implications. Calcutta

and New Delhi: K. P. Bagchi, 1988.

Hardy, Peter. Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing. London: Luzac

and Co., 1960.

Hasan, Mohibbul, and Muhammad Mujeeb, eds. Historians of Medieval India. Meerut: Meenakshi

Prakashan, 1968.

Lal, Vinay. The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India. Oxford and New Delhi:

Oxford University Press, 2003. See especially chapter 1 on “the history of ahistoricity.”

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Pargiter, F. E. Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1922. Reprint,

Delhi: M. Banarsidass, 1962.

Perrett, Roy W. “History, Time, and Knowledge in Ancient India.” History and Theory 38 (1999):

307–321.

Philips, C. H., ed. Historians of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. London and New York: Oxford University

Press, 1961.

Prakash, Buddha. “The Hindu Philosophy of History.” Journal of the History of Ideas 16 (1955):

494–505.

Sarkar, Jagadish Narayan. History of History-writing in Medieval India: Contemporary Historians: An Introduction

to Medieval Indian Historiography. Calcutta: Ratna Prakashan, 1977.

Sarkar, Sumit. “The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies.” In his Writing Social History. New

Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Sen, S. P., ed. Historians and Historiography in Modern India. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies,

1973.

Singh, G. P. Ancient Indian Historiography: Sources and Interpretations. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld,

2003.

Thapar, Romila. History and Beyond. New York and New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

—. “Some Reflections on Early Indian Historical Thinking.” In Western Historical Thinking: an

Intercultural Debate, edited by Jörn Rüsen. New York and Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2002.

Warder, A. K. An Introduction to Indian Historiography. Bombay: Popular Prakshan, 1972.

Waseem, Shah Mohammed, ed. Development of Persian Historiography in India from the Second Half of

the Seventeenth Century to the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. New Delhi: Iran Culture House,

2003.

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. The Mongol Chronicles of the Seventeenth Century. Translated by Rudolf Loewenthal.

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.

SOUTHEAST ASIA, PACIFIC ISLANDS, AND AUSTRALASIA

Ahmad, Abu Talid, and Tan Liok Ee, eds., New Terrains in Southeast Asian History. Athens, Ohio:

Ohio University Press; Singapore: Singapore National University Press, 2003. Excellent collection;

see especially essays by Ni Ni Myint on Burma/Myanmar, and Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian for an

introduction to several southeast Asian historical genres and comparison of Thai and Malay writings.

Aung-Thwin, Michael. “The ‘Classical’ in Southeast Asia: the Present in the Past.” Journal of Southeast

Asian Studies 26, no. 1 (1995): 75–91.

—. Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma: Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press; Singapore: Singapore National University Press,

1998.

Cowan, C. D., and O. W. Wolters, eds. Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to

D. G. E. Hall. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Errington, Shelly. “Some Comments on Style in the Meanings of the Past.” Journal of Asian Studies 38,

no. 2 (1979): 231–244.

Florida, Nancy K. Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java. Durham,

N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1995.

Hall, D. G. E., ed. Historians of South East Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Jory, Patrick. “Problems in Contemporary Thai Nationalist Historiography.” Kyoto Review of Southeast

Asia 3 (March 2003). Available at http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue4/index.html.

Larkin, John A., ed. Perspectives on Philippine Historiography: A Symposium. New Haven, Conn.: Yale

University Southeast Asian Studies, 1979.

Macintyre, Stuart, and Anna Clark. The History Wars. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press,

2003.

Marr, David. “Vietnamese Historiography, Past and Present.” Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies 4 (2002):

1–3. Available at http://eurasia.nias.ku.dk/activities/publications/niasnytt/2002-4/vietnamese.htm.

Moses, John A., ed. Historical Disciplines and Culture in Australasia: An Assessment. St. Lucia, Queensland:

University of Queensland Press, 1979. Valuable collection of essays covering New Zealand

and Papua New Guinea as well as Australia.

Nguyên Thê Anh. “Historical Research in Vietnam: A Tentative Survey.” Journal of Southeast Asian

Studies 26, no. 1 (1995): 121–132.

Pascoe, Rob. The Manufacture of Australian History. Melbourne and Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1979.

Pelley, Patricia M. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. Durham and London: Duke

University Press, 2002.

Ras, J. J., ed. and trans. Hikajat Bandjar: A Study in Malay Historiography. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1968.

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Reid, Anthony and David Marr, eds. Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Published for

the Asian Studies Association of Australia by Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. See in particular

R. C. Ileto and John N. Schumacher, S.J., on Philippine historiography, which is relatively understudied

within the region. A useful appendix lists extant writings by southeast Asians about their

own past, including those discussed in the present essay.

Ricklefs, M. C. Modern Javanese Historical Tradition: A Study of an Original Kartasura Chronicle and

Related Materials. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1978.

Sao Sa¯imöng Mangra¯i, ed. The Pa¯daeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated. Ann Arbor:

University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, paper no. 19, 1981.

Siegel, James. Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 1979.

Soedjatmoko, et al. eds. An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University

Press, 1965.

Thongchai Winichakul. “The Changing Landscape of the Past: New Histories in Thailand since 1973.”

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, no.1 (1995): 99–120.

Van Klinken, Gerry. “The Battle for History after Suharto: Beyond Sacred Dates, Great Men, and Legal

Milestones.” Critical Asian Studies, 33:3 (2001): 323–350.

Vickers, Adrian, “Balinese Texts and Historiography.” History and Theory 29 (1990): 158–178.

Winstedt, Richard. A History of Classical Malay Literature. 2nd ed. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, and New

York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Reprint, 1969.

Wyatt, David K., ed. and trans. The Nan Chronicle. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Southeast Asia

program, 1994. Valuable introduction and edition.

Daniel Woolf

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This Reader’s Guide was compiled by the editors to provide a systematic

outline of the contents of the New Dictionary of the History

of Ideas, thereby offering teachers, scholars, and the general

reader a way to organize their reading according to their preferences.

The Reader’s Guide is divided into four sections: Communication of

Ideas, Geographical Areas, Chronological Periods, and Liberal Arts

Disciplines and Professions, as indicated in the outline below.

COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS

Introduction to History of Communication of Ideas

Communication Media

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

Global Entries

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle East

North America

Latin and South America

CHRONOLOGICAL PERIODS

Ancient

Dynastic (400 C.E.–1400 C.E.)

Early Modern (1400–1800 C.E.)

Modern (1800–1945)

Contemporary

LIBERAL ARTS DISCIPLINES AND PROFESSIONS

Fine Arts

Humanities

Social Sciences

Sciences

Professions

Multidisciplinary Practices

Especially Interdisciplinary Entries

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas lxxxix

COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS

This category is the newest aspect of the New Dictionary of the

History of Ideas ; cultural studies, communications studies, and cultural

history are moving the disciplines in this direction.

Introduction to History of Communication of Ideas

The following entries focus on the media humans have used

to communicate with one another.

Absolute Music

Aesthetics: Asia

Architecture: Overview

Architecture: Asia

Arts: Overview

Astronomy, Pre-Columbian and Latin American

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Borders, Borderlands, and Frontiers, Global

Calendar

Cinema

City, The: The City as a Cultural Center

City, The: The City as Political Center

Communication of Ideas: Africa and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Asia and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Europe and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Middle East and Abroad

Communication of Ideas: Orality and Advent of Writing

Communication of Ideas: Southeast Asia

Communication of Ideas: The Americas and Their Influence

Consumerism

Cultural Revivals

Cultural Studies

Dance

Diffusion, Cultural

Dress

Dualism

Education: Asia, Traditional and Modern

Education: Global Education

Emotions

Experiment

Garden

Gesture

Humor

Iconography

Images, Icons, and Idols

Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Thought

Language and Linguistics

Language, Linguistics, and Literacy

Learning and Memory, Contemporary Views

Mathematics

Media, History of

Metaphor

Migration: United States

Modernity: Africa

Museums

Music, Anthropology of

READER’S GUIDE

Musical Performance and Audiences

Oral Traditions: Overview

Oral Traditions: Telling, Sharing

Political Protest, U.S.

Practices

Protest, Political

Reading

Realism: Africa

Reflexivity

Relativism

Representation: Mental Representation

Resistance

Resistance and Accommodation

Rhetoric: Overview

Rhetoric: Ancient and Medieval

Ritual: Public Ritual

Ritual: Religion

Sacred Places

Text/Textuality

Textiles and Fiber Arts as Catalysts for Ideas

Theater and Performance

Third Cinema

Totems

Tradition

Translation

Virtual Reality

Visual Culture

Visual Order to Organizing Collections

Communication Media

This is a listing of the types of historical evidence the author

used in writing the entry. While entries in the original Dictionary

of the History of Ideas were to a great extent the history of texts,

the entries in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas are generally

the cultural history of ideas, making use of the records of

oral communication, visual communication, and communication

through practices, as well as the history of texts, in order to show

the impact of the idea on a wide variety of people.

ORAL

The selective list below contains the entries that give the most

coverage to historical examples of the oral transmission and transformation

of ideas.

Civil Disobedience

Civil Society: Europe and the United States

Communication of Ideas: Orality and Advent of Writing

Cosmopolitanism

Cultural Capital

Determinism

Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic

Dialogue and Dialectics: Talmudic

Dream

Emotions

Empire and Imperialism: Europe

Equality: Overview

Etiquette

Fascism

Harmony

Magic

Masks

Media, History of

Millenarianism: Latin America and Native North

America

Music, Anthropology of

Musical Performance and Audiences

Musicology

Nomadism

Oral Traditions: Overview

Oral Traditions: Telling, Sharing

Populism: United States

Psychoanalysis

Public Sphere

Republicanism: Republic

Rhetoric: Overview

Ritual: Public Ritual

Ritual: Religion

Slavery

Theater and Performance

Tragedy and Comedy

Trope

Wisdom, Human

COMMUNICATION THROUGH HIGH TECHNOLOGY

MEDIA (radio, television, film, computer, etc.)

Absolute Music

Africa, Idea of

Alienation

Americanization, U.S.

Anticolonialism: Africa

Anti-Semitism: Islamic Anti-Semitism

Architecture: Overview

Avant-Garde: Overview

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Bioethics

Calculation and Computation

Capitalism: Overview

Capitalism: Africa

Censorship

Chicano Movement

Cinema

City, The: The City as a Cultural Center

City, The: The City as Political Center

Colonialism: Southeast Asia

Communication of Ideas: Africa and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Asia and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Europe and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Middle East and Abroad

Communication of Ideas: Orality and Advent of Writing

Communication of Ideas: Southeast Asia

Communism: Latin America

Composition, Musical

Computer Science

Consciousness: Overview

Consumerism

Cosmopolitanism

Creativity in the Arts and Sciences

Critical Theory

Cultural Studies

Death

Demography

Development

Dream

Dress

Dystopia

Empire and Imperialism: United States

Environmental History

Expressionism

Fascism

Fetishism: Fetishism in Literature and Cultural Studies

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Field Theories

Futurology

Game Theory

Gay Studies

Gender: Gender in the Middle East

Gender in Art

Genetics: Contemporary

Genetics: History of

Genocide

Genre

Geography

Globalization: General

Harmony

Hinduism

History, Economic

Human Capital

Iconography

Intelligentsia

Jihad

Jouissance

Judaism: Modern Judaism

Language and Linguistics

Law

Learning and Memory, Contemporary Views

Life

Life Cycle: Elders/Old Age

Literary Criticism

Literature: Overview

Literature: African Literature

Loyalties, Dual

Lysenkoism

Maps and the Ideas They Express

Masks

Mathematics

Media, History of

Medicine: Europe and the United States

Medicine: Islamic Medicine

Meme

Memory

Modernism: Overview

Modernism: Latin America

Modernity: East Asia

Motherhood and Maternity

Motif: Motif in Music

Music, Anthropology of

Musical Performance and Audiences

Musicology

Nuclear Age

Occidentalism

Pan-Arabism

Parties, Political

Physics

Political Protest, U.S.

Political Science

Postmodernism

Power

Presentism

Privacy

Probability

Progress, Idea of

Propaganda

Property

Protest, Political

Public Sphere

Quantum

Reading

Reform: Europe and the United States

Reform: Islamic Reform

Relativity

Representation: Mental Representation

Resistance

Rhetoric: Overview

Science Fiction

Sexuality: Overview

Social History, U.S.

Society

State, The: Overview

Symbolism

Taste

Technology

Third Cinema

Third World

Totalitarianism

Victorianism

Virtual Reality

Visual Culture

War and Peace in the Arts

Westernization: Africa

Westernization: Middle East

Women and Femininity in U.S. Popular Culture

Work

World Systems Theory, Latin America

VISUAL

Each of the following entries in the NDHI either evocatively

describes ideas, includes a visual image of an idea, or provides historical

examples of societies visually transmitting and transforming

ideas.

Abolitionism

Aesthetics: Africa

Aesthetics: Asia

Aesthetics: Europe and the Americas

Alienation

Altruism

Ambiguity

Americanization, U.S.

Ancestor Worship

Animism

Anti-Semitism: Overview

Apartheid

Architecture: Overview

Architecture: Africa

Architecture: Asia

Arts: Overview

Arts: Africa

Asceticism: Hindu and Buddhist Asceticism

Asceticism: Western Asceticism

Asian-American Ideas (Cultural Migration)

Assimilation

Astrology: Overview

Astronomy, Pre-Columbian and Latin American

Authoritarianism: Latin America

Autobiography

Avant-Garde: Militancy

Aztlán

Barbarism and Civilization

Beauty and Ugliness

Behaviorism

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Bioethics

Black Atlantic

Black Consciousness

Body, The

Bushido

Calculation and Computation

Calendar

Cannibalism

Capitalism: Overview

Capitalism: Africa

Causation

Censorship

Change

Chemistry

Childhood and Child Rearing

Cinema

City, The: Latin America

City, The: The City as a Cultural Center

City, The: The City as Political Center

City, The: The Islamic and Byzantine City

Civil Disobedience

Classicism

Classification of Arts and Sciences, Early Modern

Colonialism: Southeast Asia

Common Sense

Communication of Ideas: The Americas and Their Influence

Communication of Ideas: Asia and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Europe and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Orality and Advent of Writing

Communication of Ideas: Southeast Asia

Composition, Musical

Computer Science

Consciousness: Overview

Consumerism

Continental Philosophy

Cosmology: Asia

Cosmopolitanism

Creativity in the Arts and Sciences

Critical Race Theory

Critical Theory

Cultural Capital

Cultural History

Cultural Revivals

Cultural Studies

Cycles

Cynicism

Dada

Dance

Death

Death and Afterlife, Islamic Understanding of

Demography

Demonology

Determinism

Development

Diasporas: African Diaspora

Diasporas: Jewish Diaspora

Dictatorship in Latin America

Discrimination

Diversity

Dream

Dress

Dystopia

Ecology

Education: Europe

Education: Islamic Education

Emotions

Empire and Imperialism: Europe

Empire and Imperialism: United States

Empiricism

Encyclopedism

Enlightenment

Environment

Environmental History

Epistemology: Ancient

Epistemology: Early Modern

Equality: Overview

Equality: Racial Equality

Essentialism

Ethnicity and Race: Anthropology

Ethnicity and Race: Islamic Views

Ethnocentrism

Etiquette

Eugenics

Europe, Idea of

Everyday Life

Evil

Expressionism

Extirpation

Family Planning

Fascism

Fatalism

Feminism: Overview

Feminism: Chicana Feminisms

Feminism: Third World U.S. Movement

Fetishism: Overview

Fetishism: Fetishism in Literature and Cultural Studies

Feudalism, European

Field Theories

Form, Metaphysical, in Ancient and Medieval Thought

Foundationalism

Friendship

Futurology

Game Theory

Garden

Gender: Overview

Gender: Gender in the Middle East

Gender in Art

Genetics: Contemporary

Genetics: History of

Genius

Genocide

Geography

Geometry

Gesture

Ghetto

Globalization: Asia

Globalization: General

Greek Science

Harmony

Hate

Health and Disease

Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell (Asian Focus)

Hedonism in European Thought

Heresy and Apostasy

Hinduism

History, Economic

History, Idea of

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Honor

Honor, Middle Eastern Notions of

Humanism: Chinese Conception of

Humanity: African Thought

Humanity: European Thought

Humanity in the Arts

Humor

Hygiene

Iconography

Idealism

Ideas, History of

Identity: Identity of Persons

Identity, Multiple: Overview

Identity, Multiple: Jewish Multiple Identity

Images, Icons, and Idols

Imagination

Impressionism

Intentionality

Interdisciplinarity

Islam: Shii

Islamic Science

Jainism

Jihad

Jouissance

Knowledge

Landscape in the Arts

Language, Linguistics, and Literacy

Law, Islamic

Leadership

Learning and Memory, Contemporary Views

Liberty

Life Cycle: Overview

Life Cycle: Elders/Old Age

Literary History

Love, Western Notions of

Machismo

Magic

Maps and the Ideas They Express

Masks

Mathematics

Matriarchy

Mechanical Philosophy

Media, History of

Medicine: Europe and the United States

Medicine: Islamic Medicine

Memory

Men and Masculinity

Mestizaje

Metaphor

Microcosm and Macrocosm

Migration: United States

Millenarianism: Islamic

Millenarianism: Latin America and Native North

America

Minority

Miracles

Modernism: Overview

Modernism: Latin America

Modernity: Overview

Modernity: Africa

Monarchy: Overview

Monasticism

Motherhood and Maternity

Motif: Motif in Music

Museums

Musical Performance and Audiences

Musicology

Mysticism: Chinese Mysticism

Mysticism: Christian Mysticism

Myth

Nation

Nationalism: Overview

Natural History

Naturalism

Naturalism in Art and Literature

Naturphilosophie

Negritude

Newtonianism

Nomadism

Nuclear Age

Nude, The

Occidentalism

Organicism

Orthodoxy

Pacifism

Pan-Asianism

Paradigm

Paradise on Earth

Periodization of the Arts

Person, Idea of the

Perspective

Philosophies: American

Philosophies: Feminist, Twentieth-Century

Philosophy: Relations to Other Intellectual Realms

Phrenology

Physics

Political Protest, U.S.

Population

Postmodernism

Practices

Pre-Columbian Civilization

Prejudice

Privacy

Property

Protest, Political

Psychoanalysis

Public Sphere

Pythagoreanism

Queer Theory

Race and Racism: United States

Reading

Realism

Relativism

Religion: Indigenous Peoples’ View, South America

Religion and Science

Religion and the State: Latin America

Renaissance