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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Emergence of Greek Historiography | |
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| The Timeless Past of Gods and Heroes | |
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| Discovering a Past of Human Dimensions | |
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| The Era of the Polis and Its Historians | |
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| The New History of the Polis | |
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| The Decline of the Polis: The Loss of Focus | |
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| Reaching the Limits of Greek Historiography | |
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| The History of a Special Decade | |
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| Hellenistic Historiography: Beyond the Confines of the Polis | |
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| The Problem of New Regions and People | |
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| Early Roman Historiography Myths, Greeks, and the Republic | |
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| An Early Past Dimly Perceived | |
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| The Roman Past and Greek Learning | |
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| Greco-Roman History Writing: Triumph and a Latin Response | |
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| Historians and the Republic's Crisis | |
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| History as Inspiration and Structural Analysis | |
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| History Divorced from Rome's Fate | |
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| Perceptions of the Past in Augustan and Imperial Rome | |
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| History Writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus | |
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| Historians and the Empire | |
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| The Christian Historiographical Revolution | |
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| The Formulation of Early Christian Historiography | |
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| The Problem of Continuity in an Age of Upheaval | |
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| The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Consolidation in Historiography | |
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| The Historiographical Mastery of New Peoples, States, and Dynasties | |
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| Integrating Peoples into Latin Historiography | |
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| Legitimizing New States and Dynasties | |
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| Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth | |
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| The Last Synthesis of Empire and Christianity | |
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| The Persistence of Christian Themes | |
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| Histories of a Grand and Holy Venture: The Crusades | |
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| Historiography's Adjustment to Accelerating Change | |
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| The Search for Developmental Patterns | |
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| Transformations of the Chronicle | |
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| Two Turning Points The Renaissance and The Reformation | |
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| The Italian Renaissance Historians | |
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| Humanist Revisionism Outside of Italy | |
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| The Collapse of Spiritual Unity | |
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| The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography | |
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| The Blending of Theoretical and Patriotic Answers | |
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| Universal History: A Troubled Tradition | |
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| Historians, the New Politics, and New Perceptions of the World | |
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| The Origin and Early Forms of American History | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a new Historiography | |
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| The Reassessment of Historical Order and Truth | |
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| New Views on Historical Truth | |
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| New Grand Interpretations: Progress in History | |
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| New Grand Interpretations: The Cyclical Pattern | |
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| Three National Responses | |
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| The British Blend of Erudition, Elegance, and Empiricism | |
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| Enlightenment Historiography in a German Key | |
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| Recording the Birth of the American Nation | |
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| Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-I | |
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| German Historians: The Causes of Truth and National Unity | |
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| France: Historians, the Nation, and Liberty | |
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| Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation-II | |
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| English Historiography in the Age of Revolution | |
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| Historians and the Building of the American Nation | |
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| Historiography's "Golden Age" | |
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| A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (1860-1914) | |
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| History and the Quest for a Uniform Science | |
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| Comte's Call to Arms and the Response | |
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| The German and English Responses to Positivist Challenges | |
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| The Peculiar American Synthesis | |
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| The Discovery of Economic Dynamics | |
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| An Economic Perspective on the Past | |
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| Karl Marx: Paneconomic Historiography | |
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| Economic History after Marx | |
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| Historians Encounter the Masses | |
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| Jubilant and Dark Visions | |
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| Social History as Institutional History | |
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| The American "New History": Call for a Democratic History | |
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| The Problem of World History | |
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| Historiography Between Two World Wars (1918-39) | |
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| The Twentieth-Century Context | |
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| Challenges to Historians | |
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| Historicism: From Dominance to Crisis | |
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| Historians and the War Guilt Debate | |
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| History Writing in Liberal Democracies (1918-39) | |
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| American Historiography after the "Great War" | |
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| American Progressive History | |
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| Other Social Histories | |
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| England: Historiography in a Fading Empire | |
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| French Historians: The Revolutionary Tradition and a New Vision of the Past | |
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| Historiography and the Grand Ideologies | |
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| Italian Fascism and Historiography (1922-43) | |
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| German Historians in the Weimar Republic and Hitler's Reich | |
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| The Soviet Union: The Imagined Future as the Guide for History | |
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| American Historiography after 1945 | |
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| New Realities and Traditional Horizons | |
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| Historiographical Repercussions of America's New Status | |
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| Historiography as Call for Reform | |
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| History in the Scientific Mode | |
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| History in the Language of Numbers | |
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| Reshaping Economic History | |
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| Growing Dissent: Narrativism | |
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| Psychohistory: Promise and Problems | |
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| Transformations in English and French Historiography | |
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| Voices in the War Guilt Debate | |
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| History Writing in Post-imperial England | |
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| Traditional and New French Historical Perspectives | |
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| Marxist Historiography in the Soviet Union and Western Democracies | |
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| The Problems and the End of the Soviet Union's Marxism | |
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| Marxist Historical Theory in the West | |
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| Historiography in the Aftermath of Fascism | |
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| Historical Perspectives in Postwar Italy | |
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| History for and of a New Germany | |
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| World History Between Vision and Reality | |
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| The Multiple Cultures Model | |
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| Progress and Westernization | |
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| World System Theories | |
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| Recent Historiography: Fundamental Challenges and Their Aftermath | |
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| The Maturation of the New History | |
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| History and Two Visions of Postmodernity | |
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| The New Cultural History | |
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| Prospects | |
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| Notes | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Persons and Anonymous Works | |
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| Index of Subjects | |