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Modernizing England's Past - English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Paperback)
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Modernizing England's Past - English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Paperback)
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.
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