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Author Iggers, Georg G

Title A Global History of Modern Historiography
Edition 2nd ed
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (407 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition; Preface and Acknowledgments to the First Edition; Introduction; 1 Historiographical traditions in the world: A view of the eighteenth century; Where do we begin?; Transcultural comparisons; Characteristics of historiographical thought in different cultures; The West; Characteristics of Western historiography; The emergence of an Enlightenment worldview; Erudition and critical historical scholarship; Enlightenment historiography; German forms of Enlightenment
From universal history to Eurocentric ideas of progressThe Middle East; The rise of Islam and the origin of Muslim historiography; Main styles in Muslim historiography; The bureaucratization and secularization of historiography; The decline of the Muslim world and Muslim historiography?; India; Western views on Indian historical consciousness; Indian forms of historical writing; Social and intellectual transformations during the early modern period; East and Southeast Asia; Shamanism and history: The origin of the shi; The formation of Confucian historiography
The History Bureau and dynastic historyThe spread and influence of dynastic historiography; "To seek the truth from facts": The rise of evidential learning; 2 The advance of nationalism and nationalist history: The West, the Middle East, and India in the nineteenth century; Historiography in a revolutionary age between 1789 and 1848; The political context; Romanticism and historiography; The impact of emergent nationalism on historiography; The relationship between professional scholarship and nationalism; The liberal reinterpretation of the Middle Ages
The colonial perspective and historiographyThe decline of liberalism in historiography; Ideas of progress and of crisis; Hegel's philosophy of history; Nationalism and the transformation of historiography in the Middle East; The Muslim "discovery" of Europe; Whose pharaohs? (Re)writing the history of Egypt; National identity and historical writing; Bridging the old and the new: The encyclopedists and the neochroniclers; Nationalism and the transformation of Indian historiography; Historiography during early colonialism; The new pedagogy and the emergence of a modern historical consciousness
Religious revivalism and the search for a glorious pastThe rationalist paradigm; The birth of the nationalist paradigm; Nationalism, communalism, and historical writing; Secular narratives and the emergence of economic nationalism; 3 Academic history and the shaping of the historical profession: Transforming historical study in the nineteenth-century West and East Asia; The cult of science and the nation-state paradigm (1848-1890); The political context of historiography; The social context of historiography; The turn to "scientific" history; The positivist paradigm
Notes The paradigm of the German historical school
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Author Wang, Q. Edward
Mukherjee, Supriya
ISBN 9781134856473
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