Historiography in the twentieth century from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge, with a new epilogue by the author
Intellectual historian Georg G. Iggers examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. He faces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography fol...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, CT :
Wesleyan University Press
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35575682*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The early phase: the emergence of history as a professional discipline. Classical historicism as a model for historical scholarship ; The crisis of classical historicism ; Economic and social history in Germany and the beginnings of historical sociology ; American traditions of social history
- The middle phase: the challenge of the social sciences. France: the Annales ; Critical theory and social history: "historical social science" in the Federal Republic of Germany ; Marxist historical science from historical materialism to critical anthropology
- History and the challenge of postmodernism. Lawrence Stone and "The revival of narrative" ; From macro- to microhistory: the history of everyday life ; The "linguistic turn": the end of history as a scholarly discipline? ; From the perspective of the 1990s
- Epilogue: A retrospect at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
