Choice - July/August '99
"...astonishing: a lucid, enlightening, often witty, convincing, and pithy survey of the field since the Enlightenment."


Allan Megill, University of Virginia
"...stimulating to read...."


Book Description
Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; the Annales school in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War `moods.' Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.


Card catalog description
Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.


About the Author
Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the editor of the Companion to Historiography (1996).

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Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.

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