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200 10$aModernizing England's past $eEnglish historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /$fMichael Bentley$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2005.
215   $a1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aThe Wiles lectures
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; Prelude: after the whigs; Part I The whig legacy; Part II Modernist investments; Coda: after the modernists; Bibliographical note; Index
330   $aWhat came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.
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