Daniel Woolf

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. Meer

Volume 5 offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. Meer

Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Meer

The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the 17th century. The scholarly studies in this volume throw new light on the innumerable dilemmas of conscience of men and women in this period when established authorities were questioned and violently disrupted. Meer