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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... beginning of a long intellectual voyage , but afterward I was drawn farther back to early modern , medieval , and ancient aspects of historical tradition , and I worked my way up to the modern ( and postmodern ) world only a generation ...
... beginning of a long intellectual voyage , but afterward I was drawn farther back to early modern , medieval , and ancient aspects of historical tradition , and I worked my way up to the modern ( and postmodern ) world only a generation ...
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... history " of the Enlightenment ( neue Geschichtsschreibung ) , beginning especially with the work of Voltaire , Montesquieu , and Turgot and continued by British and German scholars , including those teaching 2 Enlightened History.
... history " of the Enlightenment ( neue Geschichtsschreibung ) , beginning especially with the work of Voltaire , Montesquieu , and Turgot and continued by British and German scholars , including those teaching 2 Enlightened History.
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... beginning with Flacius Illyricus.37 Finally , the massive efforts of Renaissance scholarship were turned to ecclesiastical and medievalist questions , as in the project of Flacius and the Magdeburg Centuriators to review the documentary ...
... beginning with Flacius Illyricus.37 Finally , the massive efforts of Renaissance scholarship were turned to ecclesiastical and medievalist questions , as in the project of Flacius and the Magdeburg Centuriators to review the documentary ...
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... century did this tradition find a central role in the process of modern state- building . " At the beginning of this century , " wrote a critic in 1773 , “ German history was not being cultivated , and there were no Enlightened History 13.
... century did this tradition find a central role in the process of modern state- building . " At the beginning of this century , " wrote a critic in 1773 , “ German history was not being cultivated , and there were no Enlightened History 13.
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... for conceptualizing universal history , beginning especially in the last third of the eighteenth century . By this time evidence from geology and paleontology was piling up to cast doubts on the biblical framework of 18 Enlightened History.
... for conceptualizing universal history , beginning especially in the last third of the eighteenth century . By this time evidence from geology and paleontology was piling up to cast doubts on the biblical framework of 18 Enlightened History.
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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