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Modernizing England's Past Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Modernizing England's Past By Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Modernizing England's Past by Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)


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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period.

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Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 by Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.

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About Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the editor of the Routledge Companion to Historiography (2002) and the author of Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1999).

Table of Contents

Prelude: after the Whigs; Part I. The Whig Legacy: 1. Constitution and nation; 2. Church and state; 3. Empire and war; 4. Ghosts and intimations; Part II. Modernist Investments: 5. New historians, new histories; 6. The new eighteenth century; 7. Ideological environments; 8. Modernist method; Coda: after the modernists.

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CIN0521602661G
9780521602662
0521602661
Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 by Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Used - Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
20060112
254
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