Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBecause of the strengths of Clio's Battles, all working academics and graduate students in the discipline should read it. All practicing historians should take Black's views—and his warnings—seriously.
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Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: Academic, State, and Public Histories
2. A Selective Narrative to 1650
3. The Long Eighteenth Century
4. The Nineteenth Century
5. The Twentieth Century
6. New States and the Possibilities of Lineage
7. The Historical Dimension of Manifest Destiny
8. Post-Communism and the New History
9. Western Europe
10. Contesting the Past, Claiming the Future
11. Historiographies of the Present
12. Historiographies of the Future
13. A Personal Note
14. Conclusions
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Index
