In this transcultural history of historiography, the contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis.

This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the volume offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences of history writing in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. Illustrating just how deeply suffused history writing is with European models, the book offers a broad theoretical platform for exploring the value and necessity of a world historiography beyond Eurocentrism. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Introduction: Provincializing Europe: Historiography as a Transcultural Concept - Eckhardt Fuchs
Historiography and Cultural Identity
The Authenticy of a Copy: Problems of Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Historiography - Jochen Meissner
In Search of Lost Identity: South Africa Between Great Trek and Colonial Nationalism, 1830-1910 - Benedikt Stuchtey
India's Connection to History: The Discipline and the Relation between Center and Periphery - Michael Gottlob
Historiography on a Continent without History: Anglophone West Africa, 1880s-1940s - Andreas Eckert
Alternative National Histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and Academic Historiography - Stefan Tanaka
Across Cultural Borders
German Historicism and Scientific History in China, 1900-1940 - Q. Edward Wang
Some Reflections on the Mutual Interaction of Historiographies: France and Francophone Africa - Matthias Middell
The Beginnings of the American Historical Discipline-Modeled after Germany? - Gabriele Lingelbach
The Politics of the Republic of Learning: International Scientific Congresses in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America - Eckhardt Fuchs
Beyond Eurocentrism: The Politics of History in a Global Age
History without a Center? Reflections on Eurocentrism - Arif Dirlik
Africa and the Construction of a Grand Narrative in World History - Maghan Keita
Modernity and Asia in the Study of Chinese History - Wang Hui
Comparing Cultures in Intercultural Communication - Jorn Rusen.