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The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative
perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography
looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other
great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and
elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a
half centuries. This second edition contains fully updated sections
on Latin American and African historiography, discussion of the
development of global history, environmental history, and feminist
and gender history in recent years, and new coverage of Russian
historical practices. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, the
authors analyse historical currents in a changing political, social
and cultural context, examining both the adaptation and
modification of the Western influence on historiography and how
societies outside Europe and America found their own ways in the
face of modernization and globalization. Supported by online
resources including a selection of excerpts from key
historiographical texts, this book offers an up-to-date account of
the status of historical writing in the global era and is essential
reading for all students of modern historiography.
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different
backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the
German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish
business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents
from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students.
As a newly married couple they went to the American South where
they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the
civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany
regularly not only to do research but also to further
reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in
their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with
the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon
felt Goettingen to be their second home, while maintaining their
close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited
East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in
the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different
experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives
together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to
combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and
political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual
biography but a history of changing conditions in America and
Central Europe during turbulent times.
The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative
perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography
looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other
great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and
elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a
half centuries. This second edition contains fully updated sections
on Latin American and African historiography, discussion of the
development of global history, environmental history, and feminist
and gender history in recent years, and new coverage of Russian
historical practices. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, the
authors analyse historical currents in a changing political, social
and cultural context, examining both the adaptation and
modification of the Western influence on historiography and how
societies outside Europe and America found their own ways in the
face of modernization and globalization. Supported by online
resources including a selection of excerpts from key
historiographical texts, this book offers an up-to-date account of
the status of historical writing in the global era and is essential
reading for all students of modern historiography.
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different
backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the
German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish
business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents
from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students.
As a newly married couple they went to the American South where
they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the
civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany
regularly not only to do research but also to further
reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in
their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with
the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon
felt Goettingen to be their second home, while maintaining their
close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited
East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in
the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different
experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives
together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to
combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and
political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual
biography but a history of changing conditions in America and
Central Europe during turbulent times.
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