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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... common - law and parliamentary traditions and to the " Gothic bequest , " which gave ancient pedigree to modern English society : the past was no doubt spoiled by mis- takes , but its investigation was all the more useful for this ...
... common - law and parliamentary traditions and to the " Gothic bequest , " which gave ancient pedigree to modern English society : the past was no doubt spoiled by mis- takes , but its investigation was all the more useful for this ...
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... common denominator of , universal history was religion , since every nation has acknowledged a supreme being , even if such belief , stemming from " a tradition as ancient as the world itself , " became corrupted by superstition , false ...
... common denominator of , universal history was religion , since every nation has acknowledged a supreme being , even if such belief , stemming from " a tradition as ancient as the world itself , " became corrupted by superstition , false ...
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... common to all religions , he remarked ( “ whatever may be the opinion of an enlightened philosophy " ) ; 38 and like Volney he celebrated the stirring effects of looking on storied ruins : “ the soul of the philosopher finds itself ...
... common to all religions , he remarked ( “ whatever may be the opinion of an enlightened philosophy " ) ; 38 and like Volney he celebrated the stirring effects of looking on storied ruins : “ the soul of the philosopher finds itself ...
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... common mission ” that included revisionist efforts in psychology , politics , philosophy , religion , literature , and ( of course ) history . The project of the " Groupe de Coppet " — in exile Mme de Staël and Sismondi called it a ...
... common mission ” that included revisionist efforts in psychology , politics , philosophy , religion , literature , and ( of course ) history . The project of the " Groupe de Coppet " — in exile Mme de Staël and Sismondi called it a ...
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... common theme of what he termed the " revolution of public virtues " resulting from resistance to imperial and papal authority . Civic virtue and bourgeois prosperity were an alliance which , ac- cording to " the general plan of ...
... common theme of what he termed the " revolution of public virtues " resulting from resistance to imperial and papal authority . Civic virtue and bourgeois prosperity were an alliance which , ac- cording to " the general plan of ...
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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