In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century"the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their distinctive methods and self-understandings. Kelley treats the modern traditions of European world and national historiography from the Enlightenment to the "new histories" of the twentieth century, attending not only to major authors and schools but also to methods, scholarship, criticisms, controversies, ideological questions, and relations to other disciplines.
. . . .[A]n authoritative, densely detailed and. . . .witty survey of how 19th-century. . . .scholars approached writing about the past. -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book Review
From the Publisher
"Kelley is a master in his field, the history of historical thought. His latest book combines a broad sweep with an enviable command of context and detail."Peter Burke, Cambridge University
About the Author
Donald R. Kelley is James Westfall Thompson Professor of History at Rutgers University and executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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