Modern Historiography: An Introduction - Softcover

Bentley, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415202671 ISBN 13: 9780415202671

Verlag: Routledge, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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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What [Bentley] accomplishes in a mere 160 pages is astonishing: a lucid, enlightening, often witty, convincing, and pithy survey of the field since the Enlightenment. This is an important book whose use will benefit a great majority of those, at every level, involved in investigating historical materials.

Biografía del autor:

Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and well-known internationally to scholars interested in the history of historical writing. His Companion to Historiography (1997) and popular short guide, Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1999) have become bench texts for courses in historiography. Recently awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Professor Bentley is currently writing a comparative analysis of Western historiography since the Enlightenment.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415202671
• ISBN 13: 9780415202671
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200