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History, Historians, and the Dynamics of Change (Hardcover, New)
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History, Historians, and the Dynamics of Change (Hardcover, New)
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Green offers a remarkably lucid, erudite, and insightful
description and analysis of the theoretical foundations of modern
historical writing. He is the first to provide an orderly
introduction to the several systematic models by which leading
modern historians have attempted to explain continuity and change.
This cogent survey is essential to an understanding of modern
Western historiography. The book introduces history as a
theoretical discipline. Green examines the many pitfalls of
historical writing and demonstrates that historical "truth" is a
most elusive quarry. He addresses periodization, the manner in
which past time is divided, showing how prevailing modes of
periodization have evolved in the West. Part two of the book is
concerned with the dynamics of change in European history. Each
chapter considers a specific theoretical orientation, including:
the commercial model initiated by Adam Smith and pursued by Henri
Pirenne and others, the demographic model first formulated by
Malthus, the Marxian model (or models), and the approaches of Weber
and Sombart who identified religious forces as the chief engines of
historical change. Part three addresses models of change being
employed in world history, particularly the world-system approach
of Frank and Wallerstein and the creative orientations of
environmental historians. In his conclusion, Green returns to the
question of whether the theoretical models of change currently in
use among historians are consistent with contemporary modes of
periodization. The bibliography is extensive.
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