Developments in Modern Historiography [Paperback]

Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The essayists in this successor volume, surveying the work of the 1980s, finds that these new approaches have not brought satisfactory results, and argues that traditional practices, reassessed and properly understood, constitute the true scientific grounding of the discipline. Objective reality is obtainable, the historian's subjectivity can be understood rationally, historical sources and causal strategies can be managed objectively. In brief, a truthful account of the past is possible, but it must be both objective and subjective.A Note on Transliteration from Cyrillic Notes on the Contributors Preface; Henry Kozicki Introduction: Contemporary Historiography: Some Kicks in the Old Coffin; Sidney Monas PART ONE: OBJECT AND SUBJECT IN HISTORY Rationality and History; Georg G. Iggers Text, Context, and Psychology in Intellectual History; Gerald N. Izenberg Whither History? Reflections on the Comparison between Historians and Scientists; Theodore K. Rabb The Sociological Historiography of Charles Tilly; Leon J. Goldstein Dialectical Rationality in History: A Paradigmatic Approach to Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Michael A. Kissell PART TWO: SOURCES, RESOURCES AND EXPLANATIONS 'A Fetishism of Documents'?: The Salience of Source-based History; Arthur Marwick Marxism and Historians of the Family; Richard T. Vann 'They Were Not Quite Like Us': The Presumption of Qualitative Difference in Historical Writing; Eero Loone Strategies of Causal Explanation in History; Andrus Park IndexLEON J. GOLDSTEIN Professor of Philosophy in, and former chairman of, the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, BinghamptonGEORG G. IGGERS Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Bul”