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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783998803321

Autore

Bentley Michael <1948-, >

Titolo

Modern historiography : an introduction / / Michael Bentley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-63192-8

1-134-63193-6

1-280-13893-9

9786610138937

0-203-98173-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

907.2

907/.2

Soggetti

Historiography

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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