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Routledge Library Editions: Historiography

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 8677

ISBN-13: 1317268083

The greatest problem in historical scholarship, theoretically and practically, is the relation between historians and their subject matter. The past is gone and historians can only study its remnants. On what basis do scholars select certain facts from the mass of data left from the past? How do they explain the interrelationship of the facts they select? What criteria do they use to evaluate their subject? The 35 volumes in this set, originally published between 1926 and 1990 discuss and answer these essential questions faced by historians. The development of historical understanding during the 18th and 19th centuries was one of the most striking features of Western culture. Both historiography and historical thinking advanced as never before. The historial movment of the 19th century was perhaps second only to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in transforming Western thought. One consequence was extensive organisation and professionalization of research, which the volumes in this set reflect.

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A Theory of History

Author: Agnes Heller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1317268822

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This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems. Instead it outlines a feasible theory of history which is still radical enough to apply to all social structures.

History

Author: G. J. Renier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317241169

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This treatise of historical methodology, originally published in 1950 is based upon a liberal conception of history which excludes no narrator of past events from the ranks of historians. It defines history as the accurate story which preserves the memory of the past experiences of human societies. The functionof history determines its method and provides the answer to the question: how secure is our knowledge of the past? In the author’s view, history is empirical and its results are for ever provisional. The relative merits of dogmatism and scepticism are examined and several interpretations among English historians are scrutinized.

History and Historical Research

Author: Charles George Crump

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Published: 1928

Total Pages: 198

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History and Historical Research

Author: C. G. Crump

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 131727072X

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Aimed at students of history, this volume, originally published in 1928, examines the issues of impartiality and objectivity in the study of history. It also discusses the skills necessary for any would-be historian including the knowledge of foreign languages, the use of sources and note-taking.

Historians and the Open Society

Author: A. R. Bridbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 131728447X

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In this volume, originally published in 1972, the author discusses the conflict between the historian’s own expressed political views and the judgements he makes on political events in history.

A Theory of History

Author: Agnes Heller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1317268830

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The Art of History

Author: J. B. Black

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1317299507

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The first important scholarly consideration of Enlightenment historiography of the twentieth century, this book, originally published in 1926, critically examines the ideas of Voltaire, Hume, Robertston and Gibbon with respect to the theory and practice of historiography. The substantial introduction outlines the main differences between the ideals of these literary-philosophical schools and those which prevailed among historians in the early 20th century. The author argues that history can never be devoid of philosphical and literary interest, and that if it concerns itself merely with the stablishment of fact, will be a discipline of "contracting horizons".

Foundations of Modern Historical Thought

Author: Paul Avis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1317280237

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The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Leibniz and Bayle on the way.