Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge, with a new epilogue by the author / Georg G. Iggers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iggers, Georg G., author.

Standardized Title:

Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--History--20th century.

Historiography.

History--Methodology.

History.

History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.

"In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II."-- Book jacket

Contents:

PART I: The early phase: the emergence of history as a professional discipline

1. Classical historicism as a model for historical scholarship

2. The crisis of classical historicism

3. Economic and social history in Germany and the beginnings of historical sociology

4. American traditions of social history

PART II: The middle phase: the challenge of the social sciences

5. France: the Annales

6. Critical theory and social history: "historical social science" in the Federal Republic of Germany

7. Marxist historical science from historical materialism to critical anthropology

PART III: History and the challenge of postmodernism

8. Lawrence Stone and "the revival of narrative"

9. From macro- to microhistory: the history of everyday life

10. The "linguistic turn": the end of history as a scholarly discipline?

11. From the perspective of the 1990s

Concluding remarks

Epilogue: a retrospect at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Originially published: Hanover, NH : Wesleyan/University Press of New England, c1997.

An expanded English version of: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. c1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-188) and index.

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ISBN:

0-8195-7379-5

OCLC:

812178389