Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

Author(s)

• Iggers, Georg G.

Bibliographic Information

Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

Georg G. Iggers

Wesleyan University Press, 2005

Wesleyan University Press ed. / with a new epilogue by the author

• : pbk

Other Title

Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert : ein kritischer Überblick im internationalen Vergleich

Note

"An expanded English version of: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , c1993)"--T.p. verso

"Originally produced in 1997 by Wesleyan/University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755"--T.p. verso

"Wesleyan University Press edition including a new epilogue by the author first produced in 2005"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 161-188), suggested readings (p. 189-191), and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and questioned the very possibility of objective history. Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macrohistorical approach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. The new epilogue, by the author, examines the movement away from postmodernism towards new social science approaches that give greater attention to cultural factors and to the problems of globalization.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA73375427
• ISBN:
  • 0819567663
• LCCN: 2004115137
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Middletown, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 198 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D13.2
  • DC20 : 907/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Historiography -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : History -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : History -- Methodology