Developments in Modern Historiography
Henry Kozicki (Ed.)
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Hardcover. This collection of essays surveys the historical discipline during the 1980s in which the essayists find that the new approaches of the 1970s, promising a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality, have not brought satisfactory results. Editor(s): Kozicki, Henry. Num Pages: 216 pages, index. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 387. "Includes index. Commissioning organisation: edited by Henry Kozicki ; with an introduction by Sidney Monas. xiii, 197 p. 23 cm. Associated Names: Kozicki, Henry,. Associated Dates: 1924-. Original cloth. As new, in dw." Keywords: "History - Other Historical Subjects - Historiography,Subjects - History - General,Subjects - History - Other Historical Subjects - Historiography"
Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The essayists in this successor volume, surveying the work of the 1980s, finds that these new approaches have not brought satisfactory results, and argues that traditional practices, reassessed and properly understood, constitute the true scientific grounding of the discipline. Objective reality is obtainable, the historian's subjectivity can be understood rationally, historical sources and causal strategies can be managed objectively. In brief, a truthful ... Read more
Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The essayists in this successor volume, surveying the work of the 1980s, finds that these new approaches have not brought satisfactory results, and argues that traditional practices, reassessed and properly understood, constitute the true scientific grounding of the discipline. Objective reality is obtainable, the historian's subjectivity can be understood rationally, historical sources and causal strategies can be managed objectively. In brief, a truthful ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333585979
SKU
KEX0054310
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99-1
About Henry Kozicki (Ed.)
LEON J. GOLDSTEIN Professor of Philosophy in, and former chairman of, the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, Binghampton GEORG G. IGGERS Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Buffalo GERALD N. IZENBERG Associate Professor, Department of History, Washington University, Co-Director of its Literature and History Program, and Faculty Member, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute MICHAEL A. ... Read more
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