Umfang:
1 online resource (190 pages)
ISBN:
9780300175134
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- I. Historianship -- 1. The rise of historical consciousness -- 2. The history of professional history -- 3. History as a "social science -- 4. Historianship during the current crisis -- 5. "Historical thinking has entered our very blood -- II. Problems for the Profession -- 1. From history of the few to history of the many -- 2. Tocqueville about the future of history writing -- 3. Public opinions and popular sentiments -- 4. The sentiments of nations -- 5. The structure of events events -- 6. After 1960, fads within the profession -- 7. The prevalence of social history -- 8. The present and future of history teaching -- 9. Dangers of falsifications -- III. The Appetite for History -- 1. A new phenomenon. Its various evidences -- 2. At the same time the reduced teaching of history -- 3. Possible sources of the appetite -- 4. The interest in biographies -- 5. Ignorance of history-together with a latent sense of its growing importance -- IV. Re-Cognition of History as Literature -- 1. History, including its facts, consists of words -- 2. Absurdities of "social history" while history is literature -- 3. "Amateur" historians and their merits -- 4. Neither "objective" nor "subjective" but "participant -- 5. Historical idealism is not categorical or determinist. The decisive significance of "when? -- V. History and the Novel -- 1. Historians and novelists. Different tasks -- 2. "Fact" and "fiction -- 3. The origins and the history of the novel, which historians must consider -- 4. Every novel is a historical novel -- 5. Potentiality: What happened -- what might have happened -- 6. Recent and current crisis of the novel -- 7. Absorption of the novel by history: A new form of literature -- A small addendum -- VI. Future of the Profession -- 1. Future of books and of reading -- 2. History is necessarily revisionist.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300169560
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780300169560
Sprache:
Englisch
