The new ways of history : developments in historiography / edited by Gelina Harlaftis [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historians and the return to the diachronic / Penelope J. Corfield -- Changing ancient Greek history / Robin Osborne -- New perspectives in Greek archaeology in the last twenty years / John Bintliff -- Twenty years of medieval history in France: a preliminary assessment / Anita Guerreau-Jalabert -- New wine in new bottles: Byzantine studies come of age (c. 1981-c. 2007) / Cecile Morrisson -- The 'Absence of Byzantium' or the absence of history in general? / Nikos Karapidakis -- Aspects of Renaissance studies, 1985-2005: a survey of three periodicals and some general remarks / Benjamin Arbel -- On economic history: the progress of a discipline living with its neighbours / Peter Mathias -- Business history, post-Chandler / Walter A. Friedman -- The encounter of history with the social sciences / Paschalis Kitromilides -- Trends in the history writing of the late Ottoman empire / Donald Quataert -- On the study of diasporas / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe -- Maritime history or the history of Thalassa / Gelina Harlaftis -- What is the role of the historian in an increasingly presentist world? / Francois Hartog.