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Turning Points in Historiography - A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, New Ed)
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Turning Points in Historiography - A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Rochester Studies in Historiography
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An examination of how historical thinking has changed in recent
years, through a comparison between Eastern and Western epochs.
Until recently almost all histories of historiography have focused
on national developments or at best introduced a comparative note
from a limited Western perspective. Only in the last few years have
there been serious attempts to transcend these borders. The present
volume examines turning points in historical thought in a variety
of cultures. The essays in the first half of the book deal with
fundamental reorientations in historical thinking in the pre-modern
period since Antiquity, specifically in ancient Greece and China
and in medieval Christian Europe, the Islamic world and again
China. The essays all proceed from the premise that historical
thought in none of these cultures was static but underwent profound
changes over time. The essays in the second part deal with
historical writing beginning with the professionalization of
history in the nineteenth century. National history researched and
composed around a master narrative constituted a major turning
point in this period. Although the new paradigm emerged in the
West, it was broadly accepted by historians throughout the world.in
the twentieth century. Individual chaptersdeal with conceptions of
scientific history in the West, a comparison of national histories
in Japan, France, and the United States, and the invention of
Chinese, African and Indian national histories; finally the
critiques of the modern paradigm in postmodernist and postcolonial
theory and a consideration of the shortcomings of these critiques.
Georg Iggers is Professor Emeritus of History at the State
University of New York at Buffalo; Q. Edward Wang is Associate
Professor of History at Rowan University.
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