Ernst A. Breisach

Ernst A. Breisach

    Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., History, University of Vienna, Austria (1946)
    Dr. rer. oec. Business and Economics, Wirtschaftshochschule, Vienna, Austria (1950)
    Distinguished Faculty Scholar


    Office: 4312 Friedmann Hall
    E-mail:
    breisach@wmich.edu
    Phone:
    (269) 387-4590

Research

    My present research interests are: History of Historiography and Historical Theory.

Major Publications

Books - Author of:

    On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

    American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993

    Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

    Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Second, revised edition: Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 1994.

    Renaissance Europe. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973.

    Caterina Sforza. A Renaissance Virago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

    Introduction to Modern Existentialism. New York: Grove Press, Hardcover, 1960. Paperback 1962.

Books - Editor of:

    Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography. Studies in Medieval Culture XIX, Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1985.

 


 

Department of History
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