Historiae mundi :  studies in universal history /  [electronic resource] 
edited by Peter Liddel and Andrew Fear. 
 - 1 online resource (255 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/> "This collection is based on the papers given at an international conference (Universal Historiography in Antiquity and Beyond) which took place at the University of Manchester in June 2007". -- Pref. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction / Tim Cornell, Andrew Fear, Peter Liddel. -- Metabole politeion as universal historiography / Peter Liddel. -- Polybius and the first universal history / François Hartog. -- Diodorus' reading of Polybius' universalism / Brian Sheridan. -- Diodorus' good statesman and state revenue / Errietta Bissa. -- Strabo and the development of ancient Greek universal historiography / Johannes Engels. -- The glory of Italy and Rome's universal destiny in Strabo's Gegraphika / Marta García Morcillo. -- Universal history and the early Roman historians / Tim Cornell. -- Universal and particular in Velleius Paterculus : Carthage versus Rome / Clemence Schultze. -- Focalised universality : contextualising the genre / Liv Mariah Yarrow. -- Ennius as universal historian : the case of the Annales / Jackie Elliott. -- Theology versus genre? the universalism of Christian historiography in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen. -- Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear. -- A rose in the desert? Late antiquity and early Byzantine chronicles and the formation of Islamic universal historiography / Marco Di Branco. -- Universal historiography and world history according to Hegel / Allegra de Laurentiis. -- Spengler, the modern west, and Roman decline / John Farrenkopf. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781472519801 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historiography--History.--Greece<br/>Historiography--History.--Rome<br/>History--Philosophy.<br/>History, Ancient--Historiography.<br/>Philosophy, Ancient.<br/>World history--Historiography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DE8  / .U55 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>938