British and German Historiography, 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199202354 ISBN 13: 9780199202355

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

There are some new, and important points arising from this work ... for researchers of the history of the academic profession, or for those interested in Anglo-German intellectual exchange and comparative history, the book will be of great value. (Contemporary British History)

Informative and erudite ... British and German Historiography makes a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of the evolution of historical studies in the two countries. Anyone interested in the subject would do well to read this collection of essays. (History)

Contenuti

• Benedikt Stuchtey and Peter Wende: Introduction
• Ulrich Muhlack: Universal History and National History: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Historians and the Scholarly Community
• Fania Oz-Salzberger: Adam Ferguson's Histories in Germany: English Liberty, Scottish Vigour, and German Rigour
• Wilfried Nippel: Gibbon and German Historiography
• Norman Vance: Niebuhr in England: History, Faith, and Order
• James Campbell: Stubbs, Maitland, and Constitutional History
• Patrick Bahners: 'A place among the English Classics': Ranke's History of the Popes and its British Readers
• Hugh Tulloch: Lord Acton and German Historiography
• Peter Wende: Views and Reviews: Mutual Perceptions of British and German Historians in the Late Nineteenth Century
• Gangolf Hubinger: Historicism and the 'Noble Science of Politics' in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• Keith Tribe: The Historicization of Political Economy?
• Eckhardt Fuchs: English Positivism and German Historicism: The Reception of 'Scientific History' in Germany
• John Burrow: Historicism and Social Evolution
• Jurgen Osterhammel: 'Peoples without History' in British and German Historical Thought
• Benedikt Stuchtey: 'Westward the course of empire takes its way: Imperialism and the Frontier in British and German Historical Writing around 1900
• Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann: The Role of British and German Historians in Mobilizing Public Opinion in 1914
• Reba N. Soffer: British Conservative Historiography and the Second World War
• Peter Burke: The Web and the Seams: Historiography in an Age of Specialization and Globalization
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199202354
• ISBN 13: 9780199202355
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 446
• Redattore: Stuchtey Benedikt, Wende Peter
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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