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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... political present . This is a gross oversimplification , of course , for an understanding of the accomplishments of these two early explorers " as they really were , " but less so for their posthumous history , that is , ix Preface.
... political present . This is a gross oversimplification , of course , for an understanding of the accomplishments of these two early explorers " as they really were , " but less so for their posthumous history , that is , ix Preface.
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... course of thinking " - here Herder cites Jonathan Swift's Tale of a Tub — “ did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length , and breadth , and height of his own ? " By contrast the ...
... course of thinking " - here Herder cites Jonathan Swift's Tale of a Tub — “ did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length , and breadth , and height of his own ? " By contrast the ...
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... course the Aufklärung envisioned by Nicolai ( designed for those living in the world and not in a “ Tübingen monas- tery ” ) 13 was not that championed by Kant , not the lumières celebrated by D'Alembert and Condorcet , not the multiple ...
... course the Aufklärung envisioned by Nicolai ( designed for those living in the world and not in a “ Tübingen monas- tery ” ) 13 was not that championed by Kant , not the lumières celebrated by D'Alembert and Condorcet , not the multiple ...
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... course of time- veritas filia temporis . These are some of the main features of historical inquiry in the late eighteenth century . This discussion , of course , cannot do justice to all the varieties , conditions , and contexts of ...
... course of time- veritas filia temporis . These are some of the main features of historical inquiry in the late eighteenth century . This discussion , of course , cannot do justice to all the varieties , conditions , and contexts of ...
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... course of thinking , did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length , and breadth , and height of his own ? " asked Swift . " Yet [ Swift answers his own question ] this is the first ...
... course of thinking , did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length , and breadth , and height of his own ? " asked Swift . " Yet [ Swift answers his own question ] this is the first ...
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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