The Oxford History of Historical Writing (5 vols.)

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING (2011-2012) is a five-volume, multi-authored scholarly survey of the history of historical writing across the globe.

It is a chronological history of humanity's attempts to conserve, recover, and narrate its past with considerable attention paid to different global traditions and their points of comparison with Western historiography. Each volume covers a particular period, with care taken to avoid unduly privileging Western notions of periodization, and the volumes cover progressively shorter chronological spans, reflecting both the greater geographical range of later volumes and the steep increase in historical activity around the world since the nineteenth century. This set is the first collective scholarly survey of the history of historical writing to cover the globe across such a substantial breadth of time.


The following volumes are in PDF format:

* VOLUME 1: BEGINNINGS TO AD 600 (Oxford UP, 2012). 672 pp. Edited by Andrew Feldherr and Grant Hardy.

* VOLUME 2: 600-1400 (Oxford UP, 2011). 672 pp. Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson.

* VOLUME 3: 1400-1800 (Oxford UP, 2011). 752 pp. Edited by José Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf.

* VOLUME 4: 1800-1945 (Oxford UP, 2011). 672 pp. Edited by Stuart Macintyre, Juan Maiguashca, and Attila Pók.

* VOLUME 5: HISTORICAL WRITING SINCE 1945 (Oxford UP, 2012). 744 pp. Edited by Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf.