Product Description

Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289756 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review
'A rich and interesting piece ... it makes many incisive points. Time and again I found myself saying to myself I didn't know that or I haven't thought of that before ... I found it stimulating to read.' - Alan Megill, University of Virginia, USA

'An excellent introduction ... to the philosophical backcloth underlying different historians and historical schools. It is somewhat of a little gem ... a most informative, well-constructed, engaging read.' - Mick Lemin, University of Ulster

From the Back Cover

Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era, from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys:

* the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment
* Romanticism
* the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought
* the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World
* the Annales school in France
* Postmodernism.

Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Customer Reviews

An engaging overview of a most fascinating subject
...The book is a stimulating read, covering the vast subject of the modern age's attempts to write history. Bentley delivers his views with warmth, humor and wit and at times his insight into periods or authors serves the practical purpose of understanding your history in a richer sense. It should be standard fare for university students who want to engage with their history at a more meaningful level and it will help them arrive at ther own conclusions to questions such as what does history mean, what does it mean to write it and what does it tell us about ourselves and the world we inhabit. A stimulating introduction which will hopefully lead to further study.