This volume, originally published in 1980 discusses the way in which
distinguished historians such as Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, De
Tocqueville, Marx, Maitland, Bloch, Namier, Wheeler, Butterfield and
Braudel have regarded and tackled their discipline. As well as chapters
by individual authors who are experts on their chosen historian, there
is a substantial introduction by the editor which serves as the basis
for a discussion about the problems involved in the writing of history.