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Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998). Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France (1983) and Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993). Klappentext This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present. The volume comprises 24 chapters by leading historians who discuss conceptions of and approaches to the human past in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern West, stressing the long-term patterns and traditions in historical thinking that survive to this day. Chapters range from overviews of eras in the history of historical thought, to discussions of new methods that historians have drawn from other disciplines and of new historical subjects, such as gender, sexuality, selfhood, and natural environments. The volume concludes with essays on contemporary challenges to classic, Western definitions of history that have emerged in global history, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, and new technologies. For students, this Companion provides the background they need in order to understand contemporary historical debates and approaches, while for researchers and teachers it will serve as a useful reference work. Zusammenfassung This survey introduces readers to the major themes! figures! traditions and theories in Western historical thought! tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present. It discusses conceptions of and approaches to the human past in the ancient! medieval! early modern and modern West eras. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: The Cultural History of Historical Thought 1 Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza PART I THE PRE-MODERN ORIGINS OF WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT 1 Historiography in Ancient Israel 15 John Van Seters 2 Historical Thought in Ancient Greece 35 Philip A. Stadter 3 Historical Thought in Ancient Rome 60 J. E. Lendon 4 Historical Thought in Medieval Europe 78 Gabrielle M. Spiegel 5 Historical Thought in the Renaissance 99 Paula Findlen PART II THE SHAPING OF MODERN WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT 6 Historical Thought in the Era of the Enlightenment 123 Johnson Kent Wright 7 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and Hegel 143 Harold Mah 8 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of Politics 166 Harry Liebersohn 9 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and Bancroft 185 Thomas N. Baker 10 Marxism and Historical Thought 205 Walter L. Adamson PART III PATTERNS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT 11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical Thought 225 Georg G. Iggers 12 The History of Armed Power 243 Peter Paret 13 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian Paradigms 262 David A. Bell 14 Anthropology and the History of Culture 277 William M. Reddy 15 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Th...
