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From An Introduction to the History of History, by James T. Shotwell; Columbia University Press; New York; 1922; pp. xi-xii.

CONTENTS

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vii PREFACE

SECTION  I
INTRODUCTION

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1     I.  DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF HISTORY

12    II.  PREHISTORY; MYTHS AND LEGENDS

28   III.  BOOKS AND WRITING

40    IV.  THE MEASURING OF TIME

51     V.  EGYPTIAN ANNALS

66    VI.  BABYLONIAN, ASSYRIAN AND PERSIAN RECORDS

SECTION  II
JEWISH  HISTORY

79   VII.  THE OLD TESTAMENT IN HISTORY

86  VIII.  THE PENTATEUCH

96    IX.  THE REMAINING HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

108     X.  THE FFORMATON OF THE CANON

114    XI.  NON-BIBLICAL LITERATURE; JOSEPHUS

SECTION  III
GREEK  HISTORY

128   XII.  FROM HOMER TO HERODOTUS

144  XIII.  HERODOTUS

162   XIV.  THUCYDIDES

179    XV.  RHETORIC AND SCHOLARSHIP

191   XVI.  POLYBIUS

202  XVII.  LATER GREEK HISTORIANS

SECTION  IV
ROMAN  HISTORY

211 XVIII.  HISTORY AT ROME; ORATORY AND POETRY

225   XIX.  ROMAN ANNALISTS AND EARLY HISTORIANS

236    XX.  VARRO, CÆSAR AND SALLUST

247   XXI.  LIVY

257  XXII.  TACITUS

273 XXIII.  FROM SUETONIUS TO AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

SECTION  IV
CHRISTIANITY  AND  HISTORY

278  XXIV.  THE NEW ERA

289   XXV.  ALLEGORY AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF ORIGEN

300  XXVI.  CHRONOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY; EUSEBIUS

POSTSCRIPT  ON
MEDIÆVAL  AND  MODERN  HISTORY

314 XVII.  THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

335 INDEX

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