Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction I. The Early Phase: The Emergence of History as a Professional Discipline Chapter I. Classical Historicism as a Model for Historical Scholarship 23 Chapter 2. The Crisis of Classical Historicism 31 Chapter 3. Economic and Social History in Germany and the Beginnings of Historical Sociology 36 Chapter 4. American Traditions of Social History 41 II. The Middle Phase: The Challenge of the Social Sciences Chapter 5. France: TheAnnales 51 Chapter 6. Critical Theory and Social History: "Historical Social Science" in the Federal Republic of Germany 65 Chapter 7. Marxist Historical Science from Historical Materialism to Critical Anthropology 78 vii I xiii viii • Contents III. History and the Challenge of Postmodernism Chapter 8. Lawrence Stone and "The Revival of Narrative" 97 Chapter 9. From Macro- to Microhistory: The History of Everyday Life 101 Chapter 10. The "Linguistic Turn": The End of History as a Scholarly Discipline? 118 Chapter 11. From the Perspective of the 19908 134 Concluding Remarks 141 Epilogue: A Retrospect at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 149 Notes 161 Suggested Readings 189 Index 193 viiii ...