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James Thomson Shotwell traces the development of historical writing from early records and ways of reckoning time to the major traditions of the ancient world. An Introduction to the History of History asks how societies recorded the past and how the purposes and methods of those records changed.
The book considers Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian records before turning to biblical traditions and the formation of historical canons. Sections on Greek and Roman historians examine writers including Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy and Tacitus, followed by the transition to Christian chronology and church history.
Shotwell connects the surviving texts to the intellectual and cultural settings in which they were produced. The complete April 1922 Columbia University Press edition retains its notes, references and index, providing a sustained introduction to the study of historiography.