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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction. The power of metaphors -- 1 Metaphors -- 2 On historians and metaphors -- Part I Conceptual metaphors for history -- 1 Metaphorizing history -- 1.1 Metaphors for history -- 1.1.1 Mirrors -- 1.1.2 Perspectives -- 1.1.3 Constructions -- 1.1.4 Masters and teachers -- 1.2 Clio transfigured -- 1.2.1 Railways and trains -- 1.2.2 History in motion -- 1.2.3 Court of justice and dustbin -- 1.3 Counter-metaphors -- 1.4 Turns, levels, professions, territories, borders -- 2 Time and memory -- 2.1 Memory of time/time of memory -- 2.2 Clio, Chronos, and Kairos -- 2.3 Circles, lines, and points -- 2.4 Water, rivers, and seas -- 2.5 Atmospheres and thresholds -- 2.6 Levels, sediments, strata -- 2.7 Turbulent times -- 2.8 A deluge of memory -- 3 Pasts, presents, and futures -- 3.1 The essential triad -- 3.2 Past and present -- 3.2.1 A foreign country -- 3.2.2 The living and the dead -- 3.2.3 Distances and dimensions -- 3.3 Present and future -- 3.3.1 Lights -- 3.3.2 Seeds -- 3.3.3 Horizons -- 3.3.4 Shards -- Part II Metaphorical concepts in historiography -- 4 Sources, events, processes -- 4.1 Sources and traces -- 4.2 Events and facts -- 4.3 Processes and structures -- 5 Revolution, crisis, modernity -- 5.1 Revolution -- 5.2 Crisis -- 5.3 Modernity -- 5.3.1 Revelation, discovery, disappointment -- 5.3.2 Action and mastery -- 5.3.3 Rationalization and secularization -- 5.3.4 A perennial gale -- 5.3.5 The pile of sand and the contract -- 5.3.6 Globalization and Great Acceleration -- 5.3.7 Perverse effects and counter-metaphors -- 6 Progress, decline, transition -- 6.1 Progress, advancement, development -- 6.2 Decadence and decline -- 6.3 Tradition and transition -- Part III -- 7 Final thoughts -- Bibliography.

Acknowledgements -- Index.

This book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians.