A Global History of History

Introduction 1. Foundations 2. History during the first millennium AD 3. An age of global violence, c.1000 to c.1450 4. History in the early modern empires: Europe, China, Islam 5. Transatlantic histories: contact, conquest and cultural exchange 1450-1800 6. Progress and history in the Eurasian Enlightenments 7. The broken mirror: nationalism, romanticism and professionalization in the nineteenth-century West 8. Clio's empire: European historiography in Asia, the Americas and Africa 9. Babel's tower: history in the twentieth century Epilogue.