History from Loss

This book provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history makers into global and historical perspective.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Enterprise at the University of South Australia and Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of numerous historiography books, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (three editions), History goes to the Movies (2007), History as Wonder (2018), and most recently, with Anne Martin, Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (2022). Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he served for ten years as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He is the author or editor of several books on the history of historical writing and on early modern British cultural history, including most recently A Concise History of History (2019), and has published essays in such journals as History and Theory, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Past and Present, and The American Historical Review.

Introduction; Chapter 1. Thucydides (ca. 460-339 BCE); Chapter 2. Ammianus Marcellinus (ca 330-391 CE); Chapter 3. Gildas (fl. 5th or 6th century); Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241); Chapter 5. Atâ-Malek Joveyni (1226-1283); Chapter 6. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527); Chapter 7. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (c 1550-after 1615); Chapter 8. Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618); Chapter 9. Chimalpahin (b. 1579); Chapter 10. John Milton (1608-1674); Chapter 11. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674); Chapter 12. Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681); Chapter 13. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); Chapter 14. Peter Oliver (1713-1791); Chapter 15. Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743-94); Chapter 16. Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825); Chapter 17. Mary Hays (1759-1843); Chapter 18. Germaine de Staël (1766-1817); Chapter 19. Jane Austen (1775-1817); Chapter 20. Andrés Bello (1781-1865); Chapter 21. François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866); Chapter 22. Edward A. Pollard (1832-1872); Chapter 23. Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906); Chapter 24. Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967); Chapter 25. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964); Chapter 26. Chen Yinke (1890-1969); Chapter 27. Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (1897-1957); Chapter 28. Emanuel Ringelblum (1900-1944) and Oyneg Shabes; Chapter 29. Romila Thapar (1931-); Chapter 30. Jakelin Troy (1960-); Afterword