First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Si

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern au