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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... example . " Another , concep- tually related , commonplace was the distinction between history , which dealt with the individual , and philosophy , which dealt with the general . Other incar- nations of this duality were Meinecke's ...
... example . " Another , concep- tually related , commonplace was the distinction between history , which dealt with the individual , and philosophy , which dealt with the general . Other incar- nations of this duality were Meinecke's ...
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... example " and the new ( or , for Becker , not so new ) agenda of the phi- losophes , which ( like that of their scholastic prototypes ) had to do more with the future than with the past.2 Peter Gay , while rejecting Becker's thesis con ...
... example " and the new ( or , for Becker , not so new ) agenda of the phi- losophes , which ( like that of their scholastic prototypes ) had to do more with the future than with the past.2 Peter Gay , while rejecting Becker's thesis con ...
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... examples , while “ criticism ” was basically philosophical rather than historical in nature.3 Recent debates about the so - called Enlightenment project — whether “ un- finished " or " failed " - also tend to evade or play down the ...
... examples , while “ criticism ” was basically philosophical rather than historical in nature.3 Recent debates about the so - called Enlightenment project — whether “ un- finished " or " failed " - also tend to evade or play down the ...
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... example , while honoring Möser as " the first path- breaker of historicism , ” Meinecke dismissed the prolific Rousseauist historian Johannes von Müller as unoriginal , despite an attempt to associate him with “ early historicism " 15 ...
... example , while honoring Möser as " the first path- breaker of historicism , ” Meinecke dismissed the prolific Rousseauist historian Johannes von Müller as unoriginal , despite an attempt to associate him with “ early historicism " 15 ...
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... example , with the claims of Popper , for whom historicism was a form of " scientific determinism , ” an approach to the social sciences that assumes that " historical prediction is their principal aim . " 20 Nothing could be further ...
... example , with the claims of Popper , for whom historicism was a form of " scientific determinism , ” an approach to the social sciences that assumes that " historical prediction is their principal aim . " 20 Nothing could be further ...
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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