Modern historiography : an introduction / Michael Bentley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentley, Michael, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 EnlightenmentRomanticismthe voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thoughtthe influence of, and broadening contact with, the New Worldthe Annales school in France<LI

Contents:

The Enlightenment

The Counter-Enlightenment

Romanticism

Ranke

The voice of science

Culture and Kultur

The English 'Whigs'

Towards an historical 'profession'

Crisis over method

From the New World

Annales: the French school

Repression and exile

Post-war moods

The history of the present.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-177) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-63192-8

1-134-63193-6

1-280-13893-9

9786610138937

0-203-98173-1

9780203981733

OCLC:

475943098