The Varieties of History
From Voltaire to the Present
Published on 16. March 2011
544 pages
978-0-307-78383-7 (ISBN)
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"I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University of New York "This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography." --Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study "It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history." --Crane Brinton
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A recognized authority on modern Europe, Fritz Stern (1938-2016) was a Seth Low Professor of History and former provost at Columbia University. He held three degrees from Columbia, where he taught for over four decades. He also taught at Cornell, Yale, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Konstanz in West Germany, and as Élie Halévy Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He received a DLitt from Oxford in 1985 and the Leopold-Lucas Prize from the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1984. His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present; Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Politics of Cultural Despair; and The Failure of Illiberalism.
Content
- 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
