Includes Index

1: Changing Ancient Greek History
2: Problems in Studying Ancient Greek Religion
3: New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology in the last twenty years
4: Landscape History and Archaeology
5: Medieval History in France: Attempts to Balance
6: Byzantine History
7: Historiographical Trends in Renaissance Studies 1985-2005
8: On Economic History: The Progress of a Discipline Living with its Neighbours
9: Business History by Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School, USA
10: The Encounter of History with the Social Sciences
11: Gender History
12: Diaspora and Historical Memory
13: Maritime History
14: Ottoman History
15: The Historian in the Modern World: A Proposal for a Critical Perspective
16: Historians and the Return to the Diachronic

Making sense of the past is always a challenge for the historian. Common to all periods and specialisms is the attempt to find new modes of historical narrative. This wide-ranging overview of recent trends and the changing agenda of historical questions compares new approaches - chronological, thematic, regional - not only in the various historical fields - ancient, medieval, modern and early modern history, political, social, economic and business history, maritime history, diaspora history and gender history - but also for human history as a whole. The result will be essential reading for all those concerned with current developments in historiography.