Why history?: a history

On 'Modern Historical Consciousness'

Continuity and Change in Justifications for History

1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric

Introduction

Genealogy, Ethnography, and Historical Consciousness

Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth

Useful and Pleasurable History

From Greek to Roman Historiography

Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek in Rome

Roman Historiography in the Late Republic

History under Monarchy

Pre- and Anti-Christian Influences

2: History, Faith, Fortuna

Introduction

Classical-Christian Fusion

Christianity and Judaism

Early Christian Historiography

Christian Philosophy of History

On Causation: Determinism and Human Agency

3: The 'Middle Age'

Introduction

Annals and Ancestry

Exemplarity, Allegory, and the Presence of the Past

Periodization and the Conceptualization of Change

Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, and History as Communion

Socio-Economic Change and the Function of Genealogies

History and Developments in Political Identity

'Others' Present and Past

4: Renaissances and Reformations

Introduction

Re-Encounters

Romans, Greeks, Goths

Developments in Source Criticism?

Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes

The Return of Similitudo Temporum

Sixteenth-Century French Historiography

Modern Contextualization?

Montaigne

Church, State, and Historianship: A Comparative Perspective

Ecclesiastical History and Source Criticism

History in the Scientific Seventeenth Century

5: Society, Nature, Emancipation

Introduction

Prelude: Bolingbroke and Vico

The French Enlightenment

The Scottish Enlightenment

The German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism

Hegel

Marx

6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis

Introduction

Nationalism, Romanticism, Whiggery

Historicism and Developmental Thought

Alternatives to the Dominant German Model in the 1860s

Reactions to Historicism

New Philosophies of Historical 'Neutrality' from the Later Nineteenth Century

'Progressive' History

The Decline of Historicism and the Rise of German Social History

7: Turns to the Present

Introduction

Structures and Superstructures

Structures and Events

From Interwar to Post-War

Social History, Sociology, Modernization

Social History, Experience, Identity

Language and Culture

Theory and History

New New Histories

8: Justifying History Today

Introduction

History as Speculative Philosophy

History as Method

Knowledge and Human Interests

History as Practical Lesson

History as Moral Lesson

History as Travel, History as Tolerance?

History as Therapy

Varieties of Emancipatory History

History as Emancipation III

History as Emancipation II

History as Emancipation I

History as Identity.