Reading History

Paul Cartledge surveys the historiographical treatment of the ancient Greeks.

Judith Brown surveys the relevant literature for understanding Indian society and history.

Paul Preston looks at the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.

This month History Today publishes the first in a new regular series of bibliographical essays on a wide variety of historiographical topics. The idea of the series is to survey the subject and to provide a guide to the most important and most recent books about it. In the first of the series, Douglas Johnson looks at the French Revolution.