
The Varieties of History
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1. The New Philosophical History: Voltaire
- On History: Advice to a Journalist
- Letter to Abbé Dubos
- Introduction: The Age of Louis XIV
- On the Usefulness of History
- 2. The Critical Method: Barthold Niebuhr
- Preface to the First Edition: History of Rome
- Preface to the Second Edition: History of Rome
- 3. The Ideal of Universal History: Leopold von Ranke
- Preface: Histories of Romance and Germanic Peoples
- Fragment from the 1830's
- Fragment from the 1860's
- 4. National History and Liberalism: Augustin Thierry
- Preface and Letter I: The History of France
- 5. History and Literature: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- History
- 6. History as Biography: Thomas Carlyle
- On History
- From On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
- 7. History as a National Epic: Jules Michelet
- From the Introduction: The People
- 8. Positivistic History and its Critics: Henry Thomas Buckle and Johann Droysen
- Buckle, From General Introduction: History of Civilization in England
- Droysen, Art and Method
- 9. Historical Materialism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Jean Jaurès
- Marx and Engels, From The German Ideology
- Jaurès, Critical and General Introduction: Histoire socialiste de la Révolution française
- 10. History as an Academic Discipline: Prospectuses of Historische Zeitschrift, Revue Historique, English Historical Review
- 11. The Ethos of a Scientific Historian: N. D. Fustel de Coulanges
- An Inaugural Lecture
- Introduction to The History of the Political Institutions of Ancient France
- 12. On the Training of Historians: Theodor Mommsen
- Rectorial Address
- 13. An American Definition of History: Frederick Jackson Turner
- The Significance of History
- 14. History as a Science: J. B. Bury
- Inaugural Address: The Science of History
- Part II
- 1. Clio Rediscovered: G. M. Trevelyan
- From Clio, A Muse
- 2. Specialization and Historical Synthesis: Lord Acton and Henri Berr
- Acton, Letter to the Contributors to the Cambridge Modern History
- Berr, About Our Program
- 3. A "New History" In America: James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard
- Robinson and Beard, Preface: The Development of Modern Europe
- Robinson, From The New History
- 4. Historicism and Its Problems: Friedrich Meinecke
- Values and Causalities in History
- 5. Historical Conceptualization: J. Huizinga
- The Idea of History
- 6. Economic History: George Unwin and J. H. Clapham
- Unwin, The Teaching of Economic History in University Tutorial Classes
- Clapham, Economic History As a Discipline
- 7. Historical Relativism: Charles A. Beard
- That Noble Dream
- 8. History Under Modern Dictatorships: N. N. Pokrovsky, Walter Frank, and K. A. von Müller
- Pokrovsky, The Tasks of the Society of Marxist Historians
- The Tasks of Marxist Historical Science in the Reconstruction Period
- Frank, From Guild and Nation
- Von Müller, Editor's Note to the Historische Zeitschrift
- 9. History and the Social Sciences: Thomas Cochran and Richard Hofstadter
- Cochran, The Social Sciences and the Problem of Historical Synthesis
- Hofstadter, History and the Social Sciences
- 10. History and Political Culture: L. B. Namier
- History
- Human Nature in Politics
- 11. Cultural History as a Synthesis: Jacques Barzun
- Cultural History: A Synthesis
- 12. Time, History, and the Social Sciences: Fernand Braudel
- History and the Social Sciences: The Long Term
- 13. Social History: H. J. Perkin
- Social History
- 14. A New Economic History: R. W. Fogel
- The New Economic History: Its Findings and Methods
- 15. Clio and Crisis: C. Vann Woodward
- Clio with Soul
- Notes
- Sources and Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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