An expanded English version of: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. c1993.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index.
Contents
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 -- 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.
