Frontiers of history : historical inquiry in the twentieth century / Donald R. Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Donald R., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--History--20th century.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 298 p.))

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, the third volume of Donald Kelley's monumental survey of Western historiography, covers the twentieth century, especially Europe. As in the first two volumes, the author discusses historical methods and ideas of all sorts to provide a detailed map of historical learning. Here he carries the survey forward to our own times, confronting directly the challenges of postmodernism and historical narrative. Kelley offers highly original discussions of historians of the last half century (including friends and mentors), the "linguistic turn," the "end of history," the philosophy of history, and various new methods of histories.The book focuses first on the state of the art of history in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States on the eve of World War I. Kelley then traces every important historiographical issue and development historians have encountered in the twentieth century. With the completion of this trilogy, Kelley presents the only comprehensive modern survey of historical writing. He provides an unparalleled portrait of the rich variety of historical method along with an insider's view of the challenges of capturing history on the written page.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Horizons, 1914

1. Before the Great War

2. Reevaluations

3. After the Great War

4. Modern Times

5. After the Good War

6. Circumspect and Prospect

Conclusion: Millennium

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-284) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611734879

9781281734877

128173487X

9780300135091

0300135092

OCLC:

1024006714