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