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Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970: The Wiles Lectures

Autor Michael Bentley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2006
What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521602662
ISBN-10: 0521602661
Pagini: 254
Dimensiuni: 161 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria The Wiles Lectures

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Prelude: after the Whigs; Part I. The Whig Legacy: 1. Constitution and nation; 2. Church and state; 3. Empire and war; 4. Ghosts and intimations; Part II. Modernist Investments: 5. New historians, new histories; 6. The new eighteenth century; 7. Ideological environments; 8. Modernist method; Coda: after the modernists.

Recenzii

'… energetic …' History Today

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Descriere

This book is a full analysis of English historiography in the century after 1870.