Modern Historiography : An Introduction.
Title:
Modern Historiography : An Introduction.
Author:
Bentley, Michael.
ISBN:
9780203981733
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Contents:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PRELUDE -- 1 THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- 2 THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT -- 3 ROMANTICISM -- 4 RANKE -- 5 THE VOICE OF SCIENCE -- 6 CULTURE AND KULTUR -- 7 THE ENGLISH 'WHIGS' -- 8 TOWARDS AN HISTORICAL 'PROFESSION' -- 9 CRISIS OVER METHOD -- 10 FROM THE NEW WORLD -- 11 ANNALES: THE FRENCH SCHOOL -- 12 REPRESSION AND EXILE -- 13 POST-WAR MOODS -- 14 THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT -- POSTSCRIPT -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING IN ENGLISH -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era, from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys: the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment Romanticism the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World the Annales school in France Postmodernism. Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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