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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... interpretation . As a result of these develop- ments " history " came to be regarded in modern times less as an art or a science than a method applicable to all areas of human endeavor — a foundational view according to which history ...
... interpretation . As a result of these develop- ments " history " came to be regarded in modern times less as an art or a science than a method applicable to all areas of human endeavor — a foundational view according to which history ...
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... interpretation , auxiliary sciences , historical method , and questions of early and medieval stages of proto- “ national ” development . Among the topics discussed are the historical schools , philology and biblical scholarship ...
... interpretation , auxiliary sciences , historical method , and questions of early and medieval stages of proto- “ national ” development . Among the topics discussed are the historical schools , philology and biblical scholarship ...
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... interpretation ; and it was part of an effort not to make history into a philosophical doctrine but rather to transform ( or to extend ) it into a foundational discipline to which philosophy itself would be subject.22 In this spirit the ...
... interpretation ; and it was part of an effort not to make history into a philosophical doctrine but rather to transform ( or to extend ) it into a foundational discipline to which philosophy itself would be subject.22 In this spirit the ...
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... interpretations of Orosius and Otto of Frei- sing.36 Both national and universal history were reinforced by the Lutheran Reformation , which produced a revisionist review of the medieval past and a reassessment of Christian tradition ...
... interpretations of Orosius and Otto of Frei- sing.36 Both national and universal history were reinforced by the Lutheran Reformation , which produced a revisionist review of the medieval past and a reassessment of Christian tradition ...
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... interpretation.44 A prime exam- ple of this was the " higher criticism " of the Bible , established by the Göttingen scholar J. G. Eichhorn and others.45 The extreme model of historical criticism was historical pyrrhonism , which denied ...
... interpretation.44 A prime exam- ple of this was the " higher criticism " of the Bible , established by the Göttingen scholar J. G. Eichhorn and others.45 The extreme model of historical criticism was historical pyrrhonism , which denied ...
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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