Modernizing England's past : English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /
What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first full analysis of English hi...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005
Cambridge, UK ; New York : 2005 |
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude : after the Whigs
- Part I. The Whig legacy. Constitution and nation
- Church and state
- Empire and war
- Ghosts and intimations
- Part II. Modernist investments. New historians, new histories
- The new eighteenth century
- Ideological environments
- Modernist method
- Coda : after the modernists
- Prelude : after the whigs
- 1 Constitution and nation
- 2. Church and state
- 3. Empire and war
- 4. Ghosts and intimations
- 5. New historians, new histories
- 6. The new eighteenth century
- 7. Ideological environments
- 8. Modernist method
- Coda : after the modernists.