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Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge, with a new epilogue by the author /

Title:
Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge, with a new epilogue by the author /
Author:
Iggers, Georg G.
Published:
Middletown, CT : 2005.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt
Contents:
The early phase: the emergence of history as a professional discipline. Classical historicism as a model for historical scholarship ; The crisis of classical historicism ; Economic and social history in Germany and the beginnings of historical sociology ; American traditions of social history -- The middle phase: the challenge of the social sciences. France: the Annales ; Critical theory and social history: "historical social science" in the Federal Republic of Germany ; Marxist historical science from historical materialism to critical anthropology -- History and the challenge of postmodernism. Lawrence Stone and "The revival of narrative" ; From macro- to microhistory: the history of everyday life ; The "linguistic turn": the end of history as a scholarly discipline? ; From the perspective of the 1990s -- Epilogue: A retrospect at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Library holdings:
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D13.2 .I3413 2005Available