The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Introduction....Pages 11-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY: Voltaire....Pages 35-45
THE CRITICAL METHOD: Niebuhr....Pages 46-53
THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY: Ranke....Pages 54-62
NATIONAL HISTORY AND LIBERALISM: Thierry....Pages 63-70
HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Macaulay....Pages 71-89
HISTORY AS BIOGRAPHY: Carlyle....Pages 90-107
HISTORY AS A NATIONAL EPIC: Michelet....Pages 108-119
POSITIVISTIC HISTORY AND ITS CRITICS: Buckle and Droysen....Pages 120-144
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: Marx and Engels; Jaurès....Pages 145-169
HISTORY AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE: Prospectuses of Historische Zeitschrift, Revue Historique, English Historical Review....Pages 170-177
THE ETHOS OF A SCIENTIFIC HISTORIAN: Fustel de Coulanges....Pages 178-190
ON THE TRAINING OF HISTORIANS: Mommsen....Pages 191-196
AN AMERICAN DEFINITION OF HISTORY: Turner....Pages 197-208
HISTORY AS A SCIENCE: Bury....Pages 209-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
CLIO REDISCOVERED: Trevelyan....Pages 227-245
SPECIALIZATION AND HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS: Lord Acton and Berr....Pages 246-255
A “NEW HISTORY” IN AMERICA: Robinson and Beard....Pages 256-266
HISTORICISM AND ITS PROBLEMS: Meinecke....Pages 267-288
HISTORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION: Huizinga....Pages 289-303
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
ECONOMIC HISTORY: Unwin and Clapham....Pages 304-313
HISTORICAL RELATIVISM: Beard....Pages 314-328
HISTORY UNDER MODERN DICTATORSHIPS: Pokrovsky, Frank, and Von Müller....Pages 329-346
HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Cochran and Hofstadter....Pages 347-370
HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE: Namier....Pages 371-386
CULTURAL HISTORY AS A SYNTHESIS: Barzun....Pages 387-402
THE CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF HISTORY: Southern....Pages 403-422
SOCIAL HISTORY: Thompson....Pages 423-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-459