A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE TO
HISTORIOGRAPHY
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General Introductions to History & Historiography:
Arnold, John H. History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Benjamin, Jules R. A Student=s Guide to History. 4th ed. New York; St. Martin=s
Press, 1987. D16.6 .B4 1987 - call number in the King Library
Bentley, Michael, ed. Companion to Historiography. New York: Routledge, 1997.
D13 .C63x 1997
Bloch, Marc. The Historian=s Craft. tr by Peter Putnam. New York: Knopf, 1953.
D13 .B5613
Braudel, Fernand. On History. tr by Sarah Mathews. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1980. D7 .B7513
Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient Medieval & Modern. 2nd ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994. D13 .B686 1994
Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians : a Historiographical Introduction.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1992. D13 .G395 1992
Hobsbawm, Eric J. On History. New York: New Press, 1997. D16.8 .H626x 1997b
Stanford, Michael. A Companion to the Study of History. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell,
1994. ref D16.3 .S74 1994; D16.3 .S74 1994
Tucker, Aviezer. A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Chichester,
UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. D13.C627.2009
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Theories and Methodologies:
Baron, Salo Wittmayer. The Contemporary Relevance of History: a Study in Approaches and
Methods. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. D16.8 .B3145 1986
Black, Jeremy. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997. D13 .B54 1997
Burke, Peter. Ed. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. Wln RBR D13 .N45 1992
Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History. tr. by Tom Conley. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988. D13 .C3413 1988
Darcy, R., and Richard C. Rohrs. A Guide to Quantitative History. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 1995. D16.17 .D37 1995
East, W. Gordon. The Geography Behind History. London: Nelson, 1965.
Wln G141 .E2 1965
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Gearhart, Suzanne. The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to
The French Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
PQ265 .G4 1984
Gossman, Lionel. Between History and Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1990. PN50.G67 1990
Hirst, Paul Q. Marxism and Historical Writing. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
D13.2 .H47 1985
Howe, Barbara J., and Emory L. Kemp. Public History an Introduction. Malabar, FL:
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1986. D16.163 .P83 1988x
Krieger, Leonard. Time=s Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1989. D13 .K7 1989
LaCapra, Dominick. History & Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985
D13 .L26 1985
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Mali, Joseph. Mythistory: The Making of Modern Historiography. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2003.
Mawdsley, Evan, and Thomas Munk. Computing for Historians: an Introductory Guide.
New York: Manchester University Press, 1993. ref D16.12 .M385 1993
Revel, Jacques and Lynn Hunt, eds. Histories: French Constructions of the Past. New
York: The New Press, 1995. D13.5 .F8 H57 1995
Rigby, Stephen Henry. Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction. New York: St.
Martin=s Press, 1987. D13.2 .R54 1987
Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
& ref D16.14 .R57 1995
Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice.
Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1998. D13 .S567 1998
Stanford, Michael. The Nature of Historical Knowledge. New York: Basil Blackwell,
1986. D13 .S79 1986
Tonkin, Elizabeth, Maryon McDonald, and Malcolm Chapman, eds. History and
Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 1989. GN345.2 .H58 1989
Tosh, John. Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, and New Directions in the Study of
Modern History. 3d ed. New York: Longman, 2002.
Trinkle, Dennis A. Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age:
Historians and Computers. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
D16 .W95 1998
Vovelle, Michel. Ideologies and Mentalities. Tr by Eamon O=Flaherty. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1990. D13 .V75313 1990
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists
Are Murdering Our Past. New York: Free Press, 1997. D13 .W624 1997
History and Historians:
Banner, James M., ed. A Century of American Historiography. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2010.
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Adelson, Roger, ed. Speaking of History: Conversations with Historians. East Lansing:
Michigan State University Press, 1997. D13.5 .U6 S67 1997
Boia, Lucian, ed. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1991. ref D14.G75 1991
*Boyd, Kelly. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Two vols. London: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 1999.
Breisach, Ernst, ed. Classical Rhetoric & Medieval Historiography. Kalamazoo: Board of
the Medieval Institute, 1985. PN183 .C42x 1985
*Cannon, John, ed. The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians. New York: Blackwell
Reference, 1988. ref D14 .B58 1988 (Behind the Reference Desk)
Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1968. E175.45 H6
Luce, T. J. The Greek Historians. New York: Routledge, 1997. DF211 .L83 1997
Moxon, I.S., J.D. Smart and A.J. Woodman, eds. Past Perspectives: Studies in Greek and
Roman Historical Writing. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
DE8 .P36 1986
Sterns, Indrikis, ed. The Greater Medieval Historians: A Reader. Washington D.C.:
University Press of America, Inc., 1982 D116.5 .G73 1982
________. The Greater Medieval Historians: An Interpretation and a Bibliography.
Washington D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. D116 .S73 1981x
*Woolf, D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. 2 vols. Levittown, PA: Garland
Publishing, 1998. ref D13.G47 1998
Other Useful Sources for Concepts, Movements, and Biographical Information:
Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. ref B41 .C35 1995
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980-.
ref CT 213 .B56x (also available online)
Blackburn, Simon, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. New York: Oxford
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University Press, 1994. ref B41 .B53 1994
Byers, Paula K., ed. Encyclopedia of World Biography. 17 vols. Detroit: Gale Research,
1989. ref folio CT103. E56 1997
Contemporary Authors. Detroit, Gale Research Co. There are several versions in the SJSU
library. Also check the online version: http:www.galenet.comservletGLDform?l=2
Craig, Edward. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 10 vols. London: Routledge, 1998.
. ref. B51.R68 1998
Edwards, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 8 vols. New York: MacMillan
Publishing Co., Inc., 1967. Ref B41 .E5 1972x
Kenny, Anthony, ed. The Oxford History of Western Philosophy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994. ref B72 .O8 1994
Kuper, Adam and Jessica Kuper, eds. The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. New
York: Routledge, 1996. & ref H41 .S63 1996x
Magill, Frank Northern, ed. Masterpieces of World Philosophy in Summary Form. New
York: Harper & Row, 1961. ref B21 .M3 1961a
McNeil, Barbara, and Miranda C. Herbert, eds. Historical Biographical Dictionaries
Master Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980. ref CT 215 .H58x
Outhwaite, William and Tom Bottomore, eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of TwentiethCentury Social Thought. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. ref H41 .B53 1993
Sills, David L., ed. International Encylopedia of the Social Sciences. 18 vols. New York:
MacMillan, 1968-1979. ref H40 .A2 I5
Rolf Torstendahl, ed. An Assessment Of Twentieth-Century Historiography : Professionalism,
Methodologies, Writings. Stockholm, Sweden : Kungl. Vitterhets historie och
antikvitets akademien : Almqvist & Wiksell International, distributor, 2000.
D13 .A87 2000x
Urmson, J.O. The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers. New
York: Hawthorn Books, 1960. Ref B41 .U7
The Practice of Writing History:
Brundage, Anthony, Going to the Sources: a Guide to Historicial Research and Writing.
2nd ed. Wheeling, Ill: Harlan Davidson, 1997. ref D16 .B893 1997
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Marius, Richard. A Short Guide to Writing About History. 2nd ed. New York:
HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995. & Ref D13 .M294 1995
Bibliographies & Other Guides to Historical Sources and Reference Materials:
Begin with SJSU=s ALibrary Research in History@ web page:
http://www.sjsu.edu/~nmonday/default.htm
The two principal indices are:
America: History and Life 1964-present ref E31 .A483
Historical Abstracts 1955-present ref D299 .H51
Boehm, Eric Hh., Barbara H. Pope and Marie S. Ensign, eds. Historical Periodicals
Directory. 5 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1981-86. ref D20 .H57x
Crawford, Michael, ed. Sources for Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983. DE8 .S67 1983
Fritze, Ronald H., Brian E. Coutts and Louis A. Vyhnanek. Reference Sources in
History: an Introductory Guide. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1990.
ref D20 .F75x 1990
Guerry, Herbert, ed. A Bibliography of Philosophical Bibliographies. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1977. ref B53 .G85x
Norton, Mary Beth and Pamela Gerardi, eds. The American Historical Association Guide
To Historical Literature. 3rd ed. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
ref D20 .A44x 1995
Pok, Attila, ed. A Selected Bibliography of Modern Historiography. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1992. D13 .P596x 1992
Richardson, R. C., ed. The Study of History, a Bibliographical Guide. New York:
Manchester University Press, 1988. D13 .R44x 1988
Slavens, Thomas P. Sources of Information for Historical Research. New York: NeaSchuman Publishers, Inc., 1994. ref D20 .S53x 1994
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Stephens, Lester D. ed. Historiography: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow
Press, Inc., 1975. D13 .S73x
Trinkle, Dennis A., et al. The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources. Armonk,
N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. ref D16.255 .C65 H58 1997
Tobey, Jeremy, L. The History of Ideas: A Bibliographical Introduction. Santa Barbara:
Clio Books, 1975. ref B53 .T63x (v. 1); .B53 .T63x (v. 2)
The main journal in the philosophy of history and historiography is History and Theory.
D1.H8173.
If you need help in doing your research, please contact the library liaison for the history
department:
Nyle Monday
Reference Librarian
(408)808-2041
Nyle.Monday@sjsu.edu
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