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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: A History of Histories? | |
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| Prologue Keeping Records and Making Accounts: Egypt and Babylon | |
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| Greece | |
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| Herodotus: The Great Invasion and the Historian's Task | |
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| Thucydides: The Polis-the Use and Abuse of Power | |
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| The Greeks in Asia | |
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| Xenophon: The Persian Expedition | |
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| The Alexander Historians: Arrian and Curtius Rufus | |
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| Rome | |
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| Polybius: Universal History, Pragmatic History and the Rise of Rome | |
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| Sallust: A City for Sale | |
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| Livy: From the Foundation of the City | |
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| Civil War and the Road to Autocracy: Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio | |
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| Tacitus: "Men fit to be slaves" | |
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| A Provincial Perspective: Josephus on the Jewish Revolt | |
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| Ammianus Marcellinus: The Last Pagan Historian | |
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| General Characteristics of Ancient Historiography | |
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| Christendom | |
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| The Bible and History: The People of God | |
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| Eusebius: The Making of Orthodoxy and the Church Triumphant | |
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| Gregory of Tours: Kings, Bishops and Others | |
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| Bede: The English Church and the English People | |
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| The Revival of Secular History | |
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| Annals, Chronicles and History | |
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| Annals and Chronicles | |
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| Pseudo-History: Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
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| Secular History and Chronicle: William of Malmesbury's Modern History and the Scurrilities of Matthew Paris | |
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| Two Abbey Chronicles: St. Albans and Bury St. Edmunds | |
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| Crusader History and Chivalric History: Villehardouin and Froissart | |
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| Villehardouin's The Conquest of Constantinople | |
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| Froissart: "Matters of great renown" | |
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| From Civic Chronicle to Humanist History: Villani, Machiavelli and Guicciardini | |
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| Studying the Past | |
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| Antiquarianism, Legal History and the Discovery of Feudalism | |
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| Clarendon's History of the Rebellion: The Wilfulness of Particular Men | |
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| Philosophic History | |
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| Hume: Enthusiasm and Regicide | |
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| Robertson: "The State of Society" and the Idea of Europe | |
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| Gibbon: Rome, Barbarism and Civilization | |
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| Revolutions: England and France | |
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| Macaulay: The Glorious Revolution | |
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| Carlyle's French Revolution: History with a Hundred Tongues | |
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| Michelet and Taine: The People and the Mob | |
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| History as the Story of Freedom: Constitutional Liberty and Individual Autonomy | |
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| Stubbs's Constitutional History: From Township to Parliament | |
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| Modernity's First-born Son: Burckhardt's Renaissance Man | |
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| A New World: American Experiences | |
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| The Halls of Montezuma: D�az, Prescott and the Conquest of New Spain | |
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| Outposts in the Wilderness: Parkman's History of the Great West | |
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| Henry Adams: From Republic to Nation | |
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| A Professional Consensus: The German Influence | |
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| Professionalization | |
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| German Historicism: Ranke, God and Machiavelli | |
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| Not Quite a Copernican Revolution | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Professionalism and the Critique of "Whig History": History as a Science and History as an Art | |
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| "Structures": Cultural History and the Annales School | |
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| Marxism: The Last Grand Narrative? | |
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| Anthropology and History: Languages and Paradigms | |
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| Suppressed Identities and Global Perspectives: World History and Micro-History | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |