Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to HuizingaIn Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the “long nineteenth century”—the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their distinctive methods and self-understandings. Kelley treats the modern traditions of European world and national historiography from the Enlightenment to the “new histories” of the twentieth century, attending not only to major authors and schools but also to methods, scholarship, criticisms, controversies, ideological questions, and relations to other disciplines. |
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... England school ( Bancroft , Prescott , Motley , and Parkman ) , later contributors to the national project , scientific history ( White , Fiske , and Draper ) , and the work of Henry Adams . The last chapter treats the various " new ...
... England school ( Bancroft , Prescott , Motley , and Parkman ) , later contributors to the national project , scientific history ( White , Fiske , and Draper ) , and the work of Henry Adams . The last chapter treats the various " new ...
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... England , history , while celebrated by classical topoi , was also tied to common - law and parliamentary traditions and to the " Gothic bequest , " which gave ancient pedigree to modern English society : the past was no doubt spoiled ...
... England , history , while celebrated by classical topoi , was also tied to common - law and parliamentary traditions and to the " Gothic bequest , " which gave ancient pedigree to modern English society : the past was no doubt spoiled ...
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... England . ” 29 This search for truth and utility- and indeed beauty , the rare quality of literary artistry - was what Voltaire meant by the famous phrase he coined : “ philosophy of history . ” But for Voltaire and others of his ...
... England . ” 29 This search for truth and utility- and indeed beauty , the rare quality of literary artistry - was what Voltaire meant by the famous phrase he coined : “ philosophy of history . ” But for Voltaire and others of his ...
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... England in that it was an interplay of three elements - the " nation " for its rights , the nobility for its privileges , and the king for absolute power . Referring to Dubuat - Nançay's Maximes du droit public françois ( 1775 ) , Mme ...
... England in that it was an interplay of three elements - the " nation " for its rights , the nobility for its privileges , and the king for absolute power . Referring to Dubuat - Nançay's Maximes du droit public françois ( 1775 ) , Mme ...
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... England after 1688 and Montes- quieu's idealization of it- realized perhaps in the French constitutional char- ter of the restored Bourbon monarchy in 1814 . As a disciple of Condorcet and Necker , Mme de Staël believed in the prog ...
... England after 1688 and Montes- quieu's idealization of it- realized perhaps in the French constitutional char- ter of the restored Bourbon monarchy in 1814 . As a disciple of Condorcet and Necker , Mme de Staël believed in the prog ...
Contents
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5 German Impulses | 112 |
6 French Novelties | 141 |
7 German Ascendancy | 173 |
8 French Visions | 198 |
9 English Observances | 225 |
10 Beyond the Canon | 254 |
11 American Parallels | 280 |
12 New Histories | 304 |
Conclusion | 339 |
Notes | 347 |
Index | 411 |
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