Modern Historiography: An Introduction
This is a very well written work with some genuine originality, not only accessible to the undergraduate but a book professional historians can read with pleasure and profit.–Canadian Journal of HistoryWhat [Bentley] accomplishes in a mere 160 pages is astonishing: a lucid, enlightening, often witty, convincing, and pithy survey of the field since the Enlightenment.  This is an important book whose use will benefit a great majority of those, at every level, involved in investigating historical materials.–Choice, July/August '99...stimulating to read....–Allan Megill, University of Virginia