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Classic Texts in Context

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Each article in this series contains an excerpt of a classic work of history, accompanied by a critical essay on the author, the text, the context, and the work's enduring influence.


Bede’s Ecclesiastical History

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Commentary article

Richard Shaw

Collingwood, An Autobiography

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Liz Stanley

Droysen, Outline of the Theory of History

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Arthur Alfaix Assis

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Tim Stuart-Buttle

Herodotus, Histories

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John Claughton

Jules Michelet’s History of the French Revolution

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Rebecca Powers

Kalhaṇa, Rājataraṅgiṇī

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Luther James Obrock

Livy

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Jane D. Chaplin

Marx’s Capital

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Terrell Carver

The Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldûn

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Abdelmajid Hannoum

Ranke, History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations

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Andreas D. Boldt

Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) and the Zuo Commentary (Zuo zhuan)

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Yuri Pines

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