Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
A Theory of History
1st Edition
By Agnes Heller
April 05, 2018
This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the ...
Alexandru D. Xenopol and the Development of Romanian Historiography
1st Edition
By Paul A. Hiemstra
April 05, 2018
Despite the criticism of his peers and the inattention of his successors, Alexandru Xenopol provided Romanian nationalistic historiography with a greater measure of respectability, especially with the general public. By the time of WWI a strong sense of national identity had become entrenched as an...
Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Century
1st Edition
By Denys Hay
April 05, 2018
This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit...
Approaches to History: A Symposium
1st Edition
By H. P. R. Finberg
April 05, 2018
The contributors to this volume, originally published in 1962, explain the raison d’être of their own specialism in history be it archaeology, political, local, economic or social history or historical geography....
Aspects of History and Class Consciousness
1st Edition
By Istvan Meszaros
April 05, 2018
The various contributions in this book, originally published in 1971, discuss many aspects of the complex subject of history and class consciousness, and the themes that are dealt with are all inter-related. The papers range from history and sociology, through political theory and philosophy, to ...
Between Memory and History
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Noelle Bourguet, Lucette Valensi, Nathan Wachtel
April 05, 2018
The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared ...
Foundations of Modern Historical Thought: From Machiavelli to Vico
1st Edition
By Paul Avis
April 05, 2018
The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most ...
Gyula Szekfü: A Study in the Political Basis of Hungarian Historiography
1st Edition
By Irene Raab Epstein
April 05, 2018
This study explores the connection between politics and historical scholarship in the case of the Hungarian historian, Gyula Szekfü, whose career spanned one of the most significant and eventful periods of Hungarian history. His writing is particularly suited for an inquiry into the relationship ...
Historians and the Open Society
1st Edition
By A. R. Bridbury
April 05, 2018
In this volume, originally published in 1972, the author discusses the conflict between the historian’s own expressed political views and the judgements he makes on political events in history....
Historicism and Knowledge
1st Edition
By Charles Oman
April 05, 2018
A critical account of the case for historicism from Popper to Foucault, this volume, originally published in 1989, shows the viability of an historicist account of knowledge by replying to traditional objections and the need for defenses of realism and reference at the heart of most alternatives to...
History: Its Purpose and Method
1st Edition
By G. J. Renier
April 05, 2018
This treatise of historical methodology, originally published in 1950 is based upon a liberal conception of history which excludes no narrator of past events from the ranks of historians. It defines history as the accurate story which preserves the memory of the past experiences of human societies....
History
1st Edition
By John Higham, Leonard Krieger, Felix Gilbert
April 05, 2018
This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit...