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When modernism ends is debatable. Though The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees Modernism ending by c.1939, [4] with regard to British and American literature, "When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred". [5]
The authors who used the Annalistic tradition wrote histories year-by-year, from the beginning, which was most frequently from the founding of the city, usually up until the time that they were living in. Some annalistic authors: Gnaeus Gellius (c. 140 BC) wrote his history from Aeneas until 146 BC.
John Roberts (1928–2003) – author of [History of the World; Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)) – author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi. Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939) – author of several major world history textbooks; Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) – wrote landmark text A Study of History; Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019)
The modern academic study of history and methods of historiography were pioneered in 19th-century German universities. Leopold von Ranke was a pivotal influence in this regard, and is considered as the founder of modern source-based history. [51] [52] [53] [54]
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BCE, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the ...
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198732679. Gray, Richard (2011). A Brief History of American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405192316. Kato, Shuichi (1997). A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. Translated by ...
Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography; Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponesian War; Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates; Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history