| Description |
528 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY: Voltaire -- On History: Advice to a Journalist -- Letter to Abbe Dubos -- Introduction: The Age of Louis XIV -- On the Usefulness of History -- 2. THE CRITICAL MEHTOD: Barthold Niebuhr -- Preface to the First Edition: History of Rome -- Preface to the Second Edition: History of Rome -- 3. THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY: Leopold von Ranke -- Preface: Histories of Romance and Germanic Peoples -- Fragment from the 1830's -- Fragment from the 1860's -- 4. NATIONAL HISTORY AND LIBERALISM: Augustin Thierry -- Preface and Letter I: The History of France -- 5. HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Thomas Babington Macaulay -- History -- 6. HISTORY AS BIOGRAPHY: Thomas Carlyle -- On History -- From On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History -- 7. HISTORY AS A NATIONAL EPIC: Jules Michelet -- From the Introduction: The People -- 8. POSITIVISTIC HISTORY AND ITS CRITCS: Henry Thomas Buckle and Johann Droysen -- Buckle: From General Introduction, History of Civilization in England -- Droysen: Art and Method -- 9. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Jean Jaures -- Marx and Engels: From The German Idealogy -- Jaures: Critical and General Introduction: Histoire socialiste de la Revolution francaise -- 10. History As An Academic Discipline: -- Prospectuses of Historische Zeitscrift, Revue Historique, English Historical Review -- 11. THE ETHOS OF A SCIENTIFIC HISTORIAN: N. D. Fustel de Coulanges -- An Inaugural Lecture -- Introduction to The History of Political Institutions of Ancient France -- 12. ON THE TRAINING OF HISTORIANS: Theodor Mommsen -- Rectorial Address -- 13. AN AMERICAN DEFINITION OF HISTORY: Frederick Jackson Turner -- The Significance of History -- 14. HISTORY AS A SCIENCE: J. B. Bury -- Inaugural Address: The Science of History -- Part II -- 1. CLIO REDISCOVERED: G. M. Trevelyan -- From Clio, A Muse -- 2. SPECIALIZATION AND HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS: Lord Acton and Henry Berr -- Acton: Letter to the Contributors to the Cambridge Modern History -- Berr: About Our Program -- 3. A "NEW HISTORY" IN AMERICA: James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard -- Robinson and Beard: Preface: The Development of Modern Europe -- Robinson: From The New History -- 4. HISTORICISM AND ITS PROBLEMS: Friedrich Meinecke -- Values and Causalities in History -- 5. HISTORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION: J. Huizinga -- The Idea of History -- 6. ECONOMIC HISTORY: George Unwin and J. H. Clapham -- Unwin: The Teaching of Economic History in University Tutorial Classes -- Clapham: Economic History As a Discipline -- 7. HISTORICAL RELATIVISM: Charles A. Beard -- That Noble Dream -- 8. HISTORY UNDER MORDERN DICTATORSHIPS: N. N. Pokrovsky, Walter Frank, and K. A. von Muller -- Povrovsky: The Tasks of the Society of Marxist Historians -- The Tasks of Marxist Historical Science in the Reconstruction Period -- Frank: From Guild and Nation -- Von Muller: Editor's Note to the Historische Zeitschrift -- 9. HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Thomas Cochran and Richard Hofstadter -- Cochran: The Social Sciences and the Problem of Historical Synthesis -- Hofstadter: History and the Social Sciences -- 10. HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE: L. B. Namier -- History -- Human Nature in Politics -- 11. CULTURAL HISTORY AS A SYNTHESIS: Jacques Brown -- Cultural History: A Synthesis -- 12. TIME, HISTORY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Fernand Braudel -- History and the Social Sciences: The Long Term -- 13. SOCIAL HISTORY: H. J. Perkin -- Social History -- 14. A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: R. W. Fogel -- the new Economic History: Its Findings and Methods -- 15. CLIO AND CRISIS: C. Vann Woodward -- Clio with Soul |
| Summary |
SUMMARY: An anthology of writings by historians reflecting the major movements within historiography since 1750 |
| Notes |
Reprint of the ed. published by Meridian Books, New York |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Historical materialism -- History.
|
|
Historiography.
|
|
History -- Philosophy.
|
|
Literature and history.
|
|
Positivism -- History.
|
| Author |
Stern, Fritz, 1926-2016.
|
| LC no. |
73006547 |
| ISBN |
039471962X |
|
