Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: New Ways of History? -- 1. Historians and the Return to the Diachronic -- Penelope J. Corfield -- 2. Changing Ancient Greek History -- Robin Osborne -- 3. New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology in the Last Twenty Years -- John Bintliff -- 4. Twenty Years of Medieval History in France: A Preliminary Assessment -- Anita Guerreau-Jalabert -- 5. New Wine in New Bottles: Byzantine Studies Come of Age (c. 1981-c. 2007) -- Cecile Morrison -- 6. The 'Absence of Byzantium' or the Absence of History in General? -- Nikos Karapidakis -- 7. Aspects of Renaissance Studies, 1985-2005: A Survey of Three Periodicals and Some General Remarks -- Benjamin Arbel -- 8. On Economic History: The Progress of a Discipline Living with its Neighbours -- Peter Mathias -- 9. Business History, Post-Chandler -- Walter A. Friedman -- 10. The Encounter of History with the Social Sciences -- Paschalis Kitromilides -- 11. Trends in the History Writing of the Late Ottoman Empire -- Donald Quataert -- 12. On the Study of Diasporas -- Ina Baghdiantz McCabe -- 13. Maritime History or the History of 'Thalassa' -- Gelina Harlaftis -- What is the Role of the Historian in an Increasingly Presentist World? -- François Hartog -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.