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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... Monarchies , reprinted and translated many times as a textbook of imperial history , but not until the late seventeenth century did this tradition find a central role in the process of modern state- building . " At the beginning of this ...
... Monarchies , reprinted and translated many times as a textbook of imperial history , but not until the late seventeenth century did this tradition find a central role in the process of modern state- building . " At the beginning of this ...
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... Monarchies , and the Translation of Em- pire , and was also trying , in competition with philosophy , to be " systematic . " Yet there was another , more modern approach to comprehensive historical understanding , which was based on the ...
... Monarchies , and the Translation of Em- pire , and was also trying , in competition with philosophy , to be " systematic . " Yet there was another , more modern approach to comprehensive historical understanding , which was based on the ...
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... monarchy ( “ in the nineteenth year of the reign of Louis XVIII ” ) emerged after 1815 , and scholars set about restoring historical continuities , or at least finding a new sense of history , after old verities had ostensibly been lost ...
... monarchy ( “ in the nineteenth year of the reign of Louis XVIII ” ) emerged after 1815 , and scholars set about restoring historical continuities , or at least finding a new sense of history , after old verities had ostensibly been lost ...
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... monarchy and empire may be seen in the many - faceted image of Charlemagne , whose legend lay at the root of so many fictions and forgeries throughout the medieval and early modern periods . The author ( according to Mably ) of the ...
... monarchy and empire may be seen in the many - faceted image of Charlemagne , whose legend lay at the root of so many fictions and forgeries throughout the medieval and early modern periods . The author ( according to Mably ) of the ...
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... monarchy , and yet was a creation , most directly , of the Revolution . 18 The archives were indeed “ places of memory , ” and as such were vehicles of continuity reflecting the pathology of social tradition as well as the enduring ...
... monarchy , and yet was a creation , most directly , of the Revolution . 18 The archives were indeed “ places of memory , ” and as such were vehicles of continuity reflecting the pathology of social tradition as well as the enduring ...
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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