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Modern Historiography: An Introduction

By Michael Bentley

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0415202671, 9780415202671, 9780203981733
LCC
D13 .B427 1999
Open Library ID
OL377585M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1571966 bytes)
Pages
200\195
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 Enlightenment Romanticism the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World the Annales school in France Postmodernism. Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

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