Fritz R Stern

The Varieties of History: from Voltaire to the Present Fritz R Stern

Jacket Description/Back: This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic tendencies which have affected all modern historians: the transformation of history into an academic discipline and society's growing demand for history. Table of Contents: 1. THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY: "Voltaire"On History: Advice to a JournalistLetter to Abbe DubosIntroduction: "The Age of Louis XIV"On the Usefulness of History 2. THE CRITICAL MEHTOD: "Barthold Niebuhr"Preface to the First Edition: "History of Rome"Preface to the Second Edition: "History of Rome" 3. THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY: " Leopold von Ranke"Preface: "Histories of Romance and Germanic Peoples"Fragment from the 1830'sFragment from the 1860's 4. NATIONAL HISTORY AND LIBERALISM: "Augustin Thierry"Preface and Letter I: "The History of France" 5. HISTORY AND LITERATURE: "Thomas Babington Macaulay"History 6. HISTORY AS BIOGRAPHY: "Thomas Carlyle"On HistoryFrom "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History"" "7. HISTORY AS A NATIONAL EPIC: "Jules Michelet"From the Introduction: "The People"" "8. POSITIVISTIC HISTORY AND ITS CRITCS: "Henry Thomas Buckle "and "Johann Droysen"Buckle: From General Introduction, "History of Civilization in England"Droysen: ""Art and Method 9. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: "Karl Marx "and "Friedrich Engels; Jean Jaures"Marx and Engels: From "The German Idealogy"Jaures: Critical and General Introduction: "Histoire socialiste de la Revolution francaise"" "10. HISTORY AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE: "Prospectuses of Historische Zeitscrift, Revue Historique, English Historical Review"" "11. THE ETHOS OF A SCIENTIFIC HISTORIAN: "N. D. Fustel de Coulanges"An Inaugural LectureIntroduction to "The History of Political Institutions of Ancient France"" "12. ON THE TRAINING OF HISTORIANS: "Theodor Mommsen"Rectorial Address 13. AN AMERICAN DEFINITION OF HISTORY: "Frederick Jackson Turner"The Significance of History 14. HISTORY AS A SCIENCE: "J. B. Bury"Inaugural Address: "The Science of History"" "Part II 1. CLIO REDISCOVERED: "G. M. Trevelyan"From "Clio, A Muse"" "2. SPECIALIZATION AND HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS: "Lord Acton "and "Henry Berr"Acton: Letter to the Contributors to the "Cambridge Modern History"Berr: About Our Program 3. A "NEW HISTORY" IN AMERICA: "James Harvey Robinson "and "Charles A. Beard"Robinson and Beard: Preface: "The Development of Modern Europe"Robinson: From "The New History"" "4. HISTORICISM AND ITS PROBLEMS: "Friedrich Meinecke"Values and Causalities in History 5. HISTORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION: "J. Huizinga"The Idea of History 6. ECONOMIC HISTORY: "George Unwin "and "J. H. Clapham"Unwin: The Teaching of Economic History in University Tutorial ClassesClapham: Economic History As a Discipline 7. HISTORICAL RELATIVISM: "Charles A. Beard"That Noble Dream 8. HISTORY UNDER MORDERN DICTATORSHIPS: "N. N. Pokrovsky, Walter Frank, "and "K. A. von Muller"Povrovsky: The Tasks of the Society of Marxist HistoriansThe Tasks of Marxist Historical Science in the Reconstruction PeriodFrank: From "Guild and Nation"Von Muller: Editor's Note to the "Historische Zeitschrift"" "9. HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: "Thomas Cochran and Richard Hofstadter"Cochran: The Social Sciences and the Problem of Historical SynthesisHofstadter: History and the Social Sciences 10. HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE: "L. B. Namier"HistoryHuman Nature in Politics 11. CULTURAL HISTORY AS A SYNTHESIS: "Jacques Brown"Cultural History: A Synthesis 12. TIME, HISTORY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: "Fernand Braudel"History and the Social Sciences: The Long Term 13. SOCIAL HISTORY: "H. J. Perkin"Social History 14. A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: "R. W. Fogel"the new Economic History: Its Findings and Methods 15. CLIO AND CRISIS: "C. Vann Woodward"Clio with SoulMarc Notes: Reprint of the ed. published by Meridian Books, New York.; Includes bibliographical references.