This book is a look at 12 theories/methods of historiography. The included chapters cover empiricism, Marxism, psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, quantitative history, anthropology/ethnohistory, historical narrative, oral history, gender history, postcolonial, and poststructuralism/postmodern history.

In the first section of each chapter, Green and Troup offer a short explanatory discourse on each theory/method, following with a short example. The book is at time dense with some theories described more clearly than others. Where most historical works utilize a combination of theories and methods, this book serves as a good framework for understanding foundational concepts in historiography. This book is generally utilized in post-graduate level history classes.

Technically didn't get through like 5 chapters, but I've been looking forward to giving this 2 stars for weeks and I'm not going to give up now.

+2 stars for containing some moderately interesting information that sort of helped me think about history in new, exciting ways
-3 stars for being a boring textbook

Arguably that math adds up to -1 stars and not 2, but hey, I'm a history student; math is hard.

Possibly the best comprehensive textbook I’ve ever used. Nuanced, in-depth, well-structured, and interesting. I found it useful and fascinating.