Modernizing England's Past

English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970

By:

Michael Bentley

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Series:

The Wiles Lectures

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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, Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first 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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

January 12th, 2006

Author

Michael Bentley

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

254

Series

The Wiles Lectures

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780521841788

Product ID

1824905

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