The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing 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. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past across the globe from the beginning of writing to the present day.

1 - History and Theory
2 - History and Memory
3 - Censorship and History since 1945
4 - Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies
5 - World History
6 - Global Economic History: A Survey
7 - Women's and Gender History
8 - The Historiography of Environmental History
9 - The Historiography of Science and Technology
10 - History and Social Science in the West
11 - From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing
12 - Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
13 - French Historical Writing
14 - British Historical Writing
15 - Scandinavian Historical Writing
16 - Italian Historical Writing
17 - Historical Writing in the Balkans
18 - Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia
19 - African Historical Writing
20 - Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability
21 - Brazilian Historical Writing
22 - Mexican Historical Writing
23 - American Historical Writing
24 - Arab Historical Writing
25 - Indian Historical Writing since 1947
26 - Thai Historical Writing
27 - Vietnamese Historical Writing
28 - Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence
29 - Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia
30 - Chinese Historical Writing since 1949
31 - Japanese Historical Writing
32 - Historians and Historical Writing in Korea

Axel Schneider was born in Germany. Educated at Erlangen University, National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Bochum University he has taught at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Leiden (The Netherlands), National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Beijing University. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Modern China Studies at Göttingen University, where is currently also serving as Director of the Göttingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. Editor of the Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, he has published widely in German, English, and Chinese on modern Chinese historical writing. Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of The Oxford History of Historical Writing, he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously also edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998).