In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with  sections on current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, the linguistic turn, and more.