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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... constitutional history , " as pur- sued according to different national styles , and ideas of primitive community . Among the major figures examined are Scott , Macaulay , Freeman , Stubbs , and Acton ; Mommsen , Ranke , Burckhardt ...
... constitutional history , " as pur- sued according to different national styles , and ideas of primitive community . Among the major figures examined are Scott , Macaulay , Freeman , Stubbs , and Acton ; Mommsen , Ranke , Burckhardt ...
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... constitutional monarchy . For Voltaire and Dubos he was an example of medieval violence and usurpation ; for Germanists like Montesquieu he was an ideal ruler : “ The prince was great , the man greater . " 15 Charlemagne was seminal in ...
... constitutional monarchy . For Voltaire and Dubos he was an example of medieval violence and usurpation ; for Germanists like Montesquieu he was an ideal ruler : “ The prince was great , the man greater . " 15 Charlemagne was seminal in ...
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... constitutional history , following the Germanist line of Boullainvilliers . The first publication of the book , which was suspended in 1792 , still seemed so timely in the July Monarchy that Guizot saw to its republication more than ...
... constitutional history , following the Germanist line of Boullainvilliers . The first publication of the book , which was suspended in 1792 , still seemed so timely in the July Monarchy that Guizot saw to its republication more than ...
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... constitutional course into radicalism ( shared even by Condorcet ) and then true despotism . Her nemesis Napoleon Bonaparte did not under- stand history ( though he plundered it ) and took not only Charlemagne but also Attila , feudal ...
... constitutional course into radicalism ( shared even by Condorcet ) and then true despotism . Her nemesis Napoleon Bonaparte did not under- stand history ( though he plundered it ) and took not only Charlemagne but also Attila , feudal ...
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... constitutional changes , not to speak of disasters like the " horrible project " ( the old conspiracy theory revived ) of the massacres of St. Bartholomew . The last of these " revolu- tions " involved the defortification of towns and ...
... constitutional changes , not to speak of disasters like the " horrible project " ( the old conspiracy theory revived ) of the massacres of St. Bartholomew . The last of these " revolu- tions " involved the defortification of towns and ...
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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Acton American ancient antiquity archeology archives Bancroft Burckhardt Cambridge Christian civilization conjectural Creuzer critical cultural history Döllinger Droysen eighteenth century Empire England English Enlightenment especially Essays Europe European feudal France Freeman French Revolution Friedrich Friedrich Meinecke Froude Fustel German Germanist Geschichte Göttingen Greek Guizot Hegel Henry Herder hermeneutics Herodotus historians historical inquiry historicism historiography Historische human Ibid ideas institutions intellectual interpretation Jakob Grimm l'histoire Lamprecht language later lectures liberty literary literature London Lord Acton Macaulay medieval Meinecke method Michelet Mme de Staël modern Mommsen monarchy moral Müller myth mythology narrative Niebuhr nineteenth century origins Paris past period philology philosophy of history political prehistory progress published question Ranke Ranke's religion Renaissance Roman Rome Savigny Schlegel scholarly scholars scholarship Sismondi social society sources story Stubbs study of history Tacitus theory Thierry Thucydides tion tradition trans universal history Vico Voltaire writing wrote York