Developments in modern historiography

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

1993

197 Pages

ISBN 978-0-333-74826-8

Developments in modern historiography

Edited by

Henry Kozicki

Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The essayists in this successor volume, surveying the work of the 1980s, finds that these new approaches have not brought satisfactory results, and argues that traditional practices, reassessed and properly understood, constitute the true scientific grounding of the discipline. Objective reality isobtainable, the historian's subjectivity can be understood rationally, historical sources and causal strategies can be managed objectively. In brief, a truthful account of the past is possible, but it must be both objective and subjective.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14970-4

Full citation:

Kozicki, H. (ed) (1993). Developments in modern historiography, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Monas Sidney

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