Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Lloyd Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998).
Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France (1983) and Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993).
"This companion is expansive in its subject and links with other disciplines, such as ancient history and the classics, anthropology, Biblical studies and theology… It covers many expected subjects, but also explores lesser-known areas of historical interest as well as the challenges to historical thought in the twenty-first century that will continue to make this companion a useful library resource." <i>Reference Reviews</i>
- Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day.
- Provides students with the background to contemporary historical debates and approaches.
- Serves as a useful reference for researchers and teachers.
- Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: The Cultural History of Historical Thought
Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza 1
Part I The Pre-modern Origins of Western Historical Thought
1 Historiography in Ancient Israel
John Van Seters 15
2 Historical Thought in Ancient Greece
Philip A. Stadter 35
3 Historical Thought in Ancient Rome
J. E. Lendon 60
4 Historical Thought in Medieval Europe
Gabrielle M. Spiegel 78
5 Historical Thought in the Renaissance
Paula Findlen 99
Part II The Shaping of Modern Western Historical Thought
6 Historical Thought in the Era of the Enlightenment
Johnson Kent Wright 123
7 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and Hegel
Harold Mah 143
8 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of Politics
Harry Liebersohn 166
9 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and Bancroft
Thomas N. Baker 185
10 Marxism and Historical Thought
Walter L. Adamson 205
Part III Patterns in Twentieth-century Western Historical Thought
11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical Thought
Georg G. Iggers 225
12 The History of Armed Power
Peter Paret 243
13 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian Paradigms
David A. Bell 262
14 Anthropology and the History of Culture
William M. Reddy 277
15 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Theory of Relativistic Objectivity
Ken Alder 297
16 Language, Literary Studies, and Historical Thought
Susan A. Crane 319
17 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Thought
Lynn Hunt 337
18 Redefining Historical Identities: Sexuality, Gender, and the Self
Carolyn J. Dean 357
19 Historicizing Natural Environments: The Deep Roots of Environmental History
Andrew C. Isenberg 372
Part IV Challenges to the Boundaries of Western Historical Thought
20 The New World History
Jerry H. Bentley 393
21 Postcolonial History
Prasenjit Duara 417
22 The Multicultural History of Nations
Donna R. Gabaccia 432
23 New Technologies and Historical Knowledge
James M. Murray 447
24 The Visual Media and Historical Knowledge
Robert A. Rosenstone 466
Consolidated Bibliography 482
Index 495
The volume comprises 24 chapters by leading historians who discuss conceptions of and approaches to the human past in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern West, stressing the long-term patterns and traditions in historical thinking that survive to this day. Chapters range from overviews of eras in the history of historical thought, to discussions of new methods that historians have drawn from other disciplines and of new historical subjects, such as gender, sexuality, selfhood, and natural environments. The volume concludes with essays on contemporary challenges to classic, Western definitions of history that have emerged in global history, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, and new technologies.
For students, this Companion provides the background they need in order to understand contemporary historical debates and approaches, while for researchers and teachers it will serve as a useful reference work.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Lloyd Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998).
Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France (1983) and Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993).