The theory and practice of history.
By: Edited with an introd. by Georg G. Iggers and Konrad von Moltke. New translations by Wilma A. Iggers and Konrad von Moltke.
Contributors: Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835.; Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886.
Series: The European historiography series
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Historiography
Notes: "Konrad von Moltke has revised and abridged the 1901 Fowler translation of the History of the popes and translated the last two sections which were not previously available in English."
Table of contents: title: Bibliographical note (p. lxxiii-lxxx); title: Wilhelm von Humboldt, On the historian's task (1821); title: On the relations of history and philosophy (a manuscript of the 1830s); title: On the character of historical science (a manuscript of the 1830s); title: The pitfalls of a philosophy of history (introduction to a lecture on universal history; a manuscript of the 1840s); title: On progress in history (from the first lecture to King Maximilian II of Bavaria, On the epochs of modern history, 1854); title: The role of the particular and general in the study of universal history (a manuscript of the 1860s); title: The great powers (1833); title: A dialogue on politics (1836); title: Preface to the first edition of Histories of the Latin and Germanic nations (October 1824); title: Preface to History of the popes (1834); title: Preface to History of France (1852); title: Preface to History of England (1859); title: Preface to Universal history (1880); title: History of the popes (1834) (p. 169-496)