British and German historiography, 1750-1950 : traditions, perceptions, and transfers
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British and German historiography, 1750-1950 : traditions, perceptions, and transfers
(Studies of the German Historical Institute London)
German Historical Institute London , Oxford University Press, 2000
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Note
Bibliography: p. [410]-421
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume compares British and German historiography from the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century. It examines the scope and impact of transfers, the potential of mutual perceptions, and the power and influence of national traditions. The book documents the intense competition between the British and the German scholarly communities, and also shows how, while it was not always easy to build bridges, they also profited from each other's work.
Historians such as Ferguson, Gibbon, Niebuhr, Macaulay, Ranke, Stubbs, and Acton play a central role, as do philosophical concepts such as historicism, positivism, and evolutionism. The comparison between the two historiographical cultures, and the investigation into the success or failure of transfers,
especially in the age of imperialism and during the First World War, open up new perspectives both for an assessment of the intellectual relationship between the two countries and for an evaluation of the achievements of each historical tradition.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Universal History and National History: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Historians and the Scholarly Community
- Adam Ferguson's Histories in Germany: English Liberty, Scottish Vigour, and German Rigour
- Gibbon and German Historiography
- Niebuhr in England: History, Faith, and Order
- Stubbs, Maitland, and Constitutional History
- 'A place among the English Classics': Ranke's History of the Popes and its British Readers
- Lord Acton and German Historiography
- Views and Reviews: Mutual Perceptions of British and German Historians in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Historicism and the 'Noble Science of Politics' in Nineteenth-Century Germany
- The Historicization of Political Economy?
- English Positivism and German Historicism: The Reception of 'Scientific History' in Germany
- Historicism and Social Evolution
- 'Peoples without History' in British and German Historical Thought
- 'Westward the course of empire takes its way: Imperialism and the Frontier in British and German Historical Writing around 1900
- The Role of British and German Historians in Mobilizing Public Opinion in 1914
- British Conservative Historiography and the Second World War
- The Web and the Seams: Historiography in an Age of Specialization and Globalization
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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