Historiography in the twentieth century
Subtitle: from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge
By: Georg G. Iggers.
Edition: With a new epilogue by the author.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Description: Intellectual historian Georg G. Iggers examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. He faces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II.
Notes: Previous ed.: Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1997.