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1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
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"This collection is based on the papers given at an international conference (Universal Historiography in Antiquity and Beyond) which took place at the University of Manchester in June 2007". -- Pref. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Tim Cornell, Andrew Fear, Peter Liddel. -- Metabole politeion as universal historiography / Peter Liddel. -- Polybius and the first universal history / Francois Hartog. -- Diodorus' reading of Polybius' universalism / Brian Sheridan. -- Diodorus' good statesman and state revenue / Errietta Bissa. -- Strabo and the development of ancient Greek universal historiography / Johannes Engels. -- The glory of Italy and Rome's universal destiny in Strabo's Gegraphika / Marta Garcia Morcillo. -- Universal history and the early Roman historians / Tim Cornell. -- Universal and particular in Velleius Paterculus : Carthage versus Rome / Clemence Schultze. -- Focalised universality : contextualising the genre / Liv Mariah Yarrow. -- Ennius as universal historian : the case of the Annales / Jackie Elliott. -- Theology versus genre? the universalism of Christian historiography in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen. -- Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear. -- A rose in the desert? Late antiquity and early Byzantine chronicles and the formation of Islamic universal historiography / Marco Di Branco. -- Universal historiography and world history according to Hegel / Allegra de Laurentiis. -- Spengler, the modern west, and Roman decline / John Farrenkopf. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Historiography -- Greece -- History.
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Historiography -- Rome -- History.
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History -- Philosophy.
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History, Ancient -- Historiography.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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World history -- Historiography.
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Electronic books.
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Fear, A. T.
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Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977-
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Print version: Historiae mundi : studies in universal history. London : Duckworth, 2010 ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 9780715638330 (OCoLC)630726884 |
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9781472519801 (e-book) |
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9780715638330 |
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