Modern historiography : an introduction

An introduction to the history of historical writing.

The text explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.

In an 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".