01594cam a2200133 a 4500020001500000040000800015082002000023100001900043245007300062260003900135300003300174505123400207650001901441 a8125026576 cCUS00a954.0072bSRE/T1 aSreedharan, E.12aA textbook of historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000/cE. Sreedharan. aNew Delhi:bOrient Longman,c2004. axv, 570 p. :bill. ;c23 cm. aPreliminaries -- Greek historiography -- Historiography in the Hellenistic period -- Roman historiography -- Ancient Chinese historiography -- Medieval Christian historiography -- Medieval Muslim historiography (West Asian tradition) -- The impact of the Renaissance on historiography -- The impact of the scientific revolution: Bacon and Descartes -- Vico: the new science of history -- The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment and its influence on historiography -- Enlightenment historians -- The Romantic reaction against Rationalism -- Romantic-nationalist-literary historiography -- The Berlin revolution in historiography: Niebuhr and Ranke -- Positivism in history: Auguste Comte, Henry Thomas Buckle and Karl Marx -- The Twentieth Century I -- The Twentieth Century II -- Postmodernist challenge to history -- The linguistice turn -- Postmodernist historical theory versus conventional history -- Ancient indian historiography -- Medieval Indo-Muslim historiography: the Sultanate period, the Mughal period -- Indology and the recovery of Indian history -- British Imperialist (Colonial) historiography on India -- Indian nationalist historiography -- Some modern Indian historians -- The Marxist phase -- Subaltern studies. aHistoriography