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Historiography in the twentieth century. From scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

Paperback • 2005

Historiography in the twentieth century. From scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

By Georg G. Iggers

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About the book

In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces 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. The discipline's greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of t...Show more

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9780819567666

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2005

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Historiography in the twentieth century. From scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

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