This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing, though he does deal with some of the more specialist forms of medieval historiography such as the crusading writers, and chivalrous historians like Froissart. He maintains that 'modern' history did not develop until the 18th Century.

John Higham, Leonard Krieger, Felix Gilbert

Preface; Part I The Historical Profession; Chapter 1 Formative Years; Chapter 2 Growth since 1907; Chapter 3 Distribution and Recruitment of Talent; Chapter 4 The Historian and His Audience; Part II Theory; Chapter 1a Scientific History: The American Orthodoxy; Chapter 2a The New History; Chapter 3a Relativism; Chapter 4a The Renewal of History; Part III American History; Chapter 1b The Conservative Evolutionist as Amateur; Chapter 2b The Conservative Evolutionist as Professor; Chapter 3b The Rise of Progressive History; Chapter 4b The Ascendancy of Progressive History; Chapter 5 Crisis in Progressive History; Chapter 6 A Search for Stability; Part IV European History in America; Chapter 1c The Tradition; Chapter 2c The Tradition Becomes "New"; Chapter 3c The Impact of Political Involvement (1914-1939); Chapter 4c The Contemporary Status; Chapter 5a Conclusion; Part V European and American Historiography; Chapter 1d The Professionalization of History in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2d The Professional Historian in Twentieth Century Industrial Society; Chapter 3d Three Twentieth Century Historians: Meinecke, Bloch, Chabod; Chapter 4d The Problems of the Present;