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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... wrote more than a century before Dilthey , " An enlightenment without grounds , a historical Enlightenment without doc- uments , is no enlightenment at all . " 12 Of course the Aufklärung envisioned by Nicolai ( designed for those ...
... wrote more than a century before Dilthey , " An enlightenment without grounds , a historical Enlightenment without doc- uments , is no enlightenment at all . " 12 Of course the Aufklärung envisioned by Nicolai ( designed for those ...
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... wrote , 46 and so historians often had to be content with a high degree of probability ( probabilitas ; Wahrscheinlichkeit ) ; for such were the conditions of historical inquiry and that special sort of understanding which German ...
... wrote , 46 and so historians often had to be content with a high degree of probability ( probabilitas ; Wahrscheinlichkeit ) ; for such were the conditions of historical inquiry and that special sort of understanding which German ...
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... wrote Nicholas Gundling in 1719 , " is a pragmatic narrative based on the records of the laws of the Emperor and of the state , how they arose , changed , and are today . ” This field was distin- guished from German history , according ...
... wrote Nicholas Gundling in 1719 , " is a pragmatic narrative based on the records of the laws of the Emperor and of the state , how they arose , changed , and are today . ” This field was distin- guished from German history , according ...
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... wrote , “ is itself a true philosophy , the most essen- tial link in that beautiful chain , which encompasses man's higher intellectual culture . ” 87 Yet Schlegel ( recently converted to Catholicism ) had no patience with the dogmatic ...
... wrote , “ is itself a true philosophy , the most essen- tial link in that beautiful chain , which encompasses man's higher intellectual culture . ” 87 Yet Schlegel ( recently converted to Catholicism ) had no patience with the dogmatic ...
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... wrote memoirs and responded to prize questions in a wide range of subjects , also preserved interests in cultural history , and at least four of them planned a work which would elaborate Condorcet's progressivist vision . If history ...
... wrote memoirs and responded to prize questions in a wide range of subjects , also preserved interests in cultural history , and at least four of them planned a work which would elaborate Condorcet's progressivist vision . If history ...
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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