Part I: Historiographical traditions in the world: A view of the eighteenth century
1.Where we begin?
2.The West.
3.The Middle East.
4.India.
5.East and South East Asia.
Part II: The advance of nationalism and nationalist history: The West, the Middle East and India in the nineteenth century.
6.Historiography in a revolutionary age between 1789 and 1848.
7.Nationalism and the transformation of Muslim historiography.
8.Nationalism and the transformation of Indian historiography.
Part III: Academic history and the shaping of historical profession: Transforming historical study in the nineteenth–century West and East Asia.
9.The cult of science and the nation-state paradigm (1848–90).
10.The crisis of Confucian historiography and the creation of the modern historical profession in East Asia.
Part IV: Historical writings in the shadow of two world wars: The crisis of historicism and modern historiography.
11.The reorientation of historical studies and historical thought (1890–1914).
12.Historiography between Two World Wars (1918–1939).
Part V: The appeal of nationalist history around the world: Historical studies in the Middle East and Asia in the twentieth century.
13.Ottomanism, Turkism and Egyptianization: Nationalist History in the Middle East.
14.Nationalism, scientism, and Marxism: modern historiography in East and South East Asia.
15.Nationalist historiography in modern India.
Part VI: New challenges in the post-war period: from social history to postmodernism and postcolonialism.
16.The Cold War and the emergence of the New World Order.
17.Varieties of social history (1945–1968/70) in the West.
18.The 1970s and 1980s: the cultural turn and postmodernism.
19.Postcolonialism.
20.The ebb and flow of Marxist historiography in East and South East Asia.
21.Islamism and Islamic historiography: the Cold War and beyond.
22.Historiography after the Cold War, 1990–2007: A critical retrospect.
23.The globalization of the world.
24.The reorientation of historical studies.