附註:An expanded English version of: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. c1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175) and index.
pt. 1. The early phase: the emergence of history as a professional discipline: Classical historicism as a model for historical scholarship. The crisis of classical historicism. Economic and social history in Germany and the beginnings of historical sociology. American traditions of social history -- pt. 2. The middle phase: the challenge of the social sciences: France: the Annales. Critical theory and social history: "historical social science" in the Federal Republic of Germany. Marxist historical science from historical materialism to critical anthropology -- pt. 3. History and the challenge of postmodernism: Lawrence Stone and "the revival of narrative." From macro- to microhistory: the history of everyday life. The "linguistic turn": the end of history as a scholarly discipline? From the perspective of the 1990s.
摘要:A preeminent intellectual historian here 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 since history's emergence as a professional discipline in the nineteenth century, 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 called into question the very possibility of objective history. , Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macro-historical approach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. Still, while the postmodern critique of traditional historiography offers important correctives to historical thought and practice, it "has not destroyed the historian's commitment to recapturing reality or his or her belief in a logic of inquiry."
