A perfect introduction to historiography, including both the canon of ideas since the eigtheenth century and the work that formed and discussed those ideas.
'An excellent potential teaching tool as well as a book from which those working in various branches of historiography will profit.' - Daniel Woolf, University of Alberta, General Editor, The Oxford History of Historical Writing
'An expert and well-conceived collection, presenting the major issues in historiography over the past three centuries ... The work as a whole will become the standard reader for surveying historical theory and practice in the West. It is simply excellent.' - Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University, USA
