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Title: Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern by Ernst Breisach ISBN: 0-226-07278-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Immigrants into the future
Comment: When I studied for the MA, this book (and John Lukacs' "Historical Consciousness") had the greatest influence on my developed historiography.
Breisach shows that the historian is culture's interpreter and that, while there are eternal truths, human history is not yet finished and there is a great importance to continue to record what really happens.
Brilliant!
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BEST
Comment: The history of history as a discipline (historiography) tends to be a boring topic. One of my teachers even told me never to take a course in it. Professional historians tend to avoid the subject like the plague. This has left it in the hands of amateurs, even though some of those amateurs have been geniuses in their own disciplines.
Breisach has written the most informative book on the topic in English. He covers the whole span from Homer to post-modernism in a very short book. He emphasizes the right topics. Although after reading it, you won't remember much, you know where to look for information if you want it.
The book is basic for those that want to know a discipline such as History, which is so important for understanding ourselves and the rest of humanity. How many other displines have their own Muse (Cleo)?
Those that complain about the book should try reading other histories of history and they will see what a stupendous job Breisach has accomplished.
I used it as a textbook for my undergraduate students in the Historiography course and they did not complain.
Rating: 4
Summary: For Graduate Students Only?
Comment: I used this book when taking a post-graduate historiography course. Clearly not for novices or history "buffs," the book proved an excellent source for graduate students seeking some understanding of the fundamental beliefs associated with historians and how they interpreted history through various "schools" of thought. As such, it was very helpful for explaining the philosophical underpinnings behind various works. I recommend that history students use the book that way. For example, when reading Thomas B. Macaulay's "History of England" as an example of Whigish History, Breisach's interpretation of the Whig approach came in handy. His portions on Vico, and later the Annales Group or School, also proved very helpful. He certainly spent more time on European approaches although he paid some attention to American ideas. Those looking for deeper American philosophical interpretations should examine Eric Foner's "The New American History" and Peter Novick's "That Noble Dream." Breisach's book makes a great desk reference for its cross-referenced index.
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Title: Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge by Georg G. Iggers ISBN: 0819563064 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Modern Historiography: An Introduction by Michael Bentley ISBN: 0415202671 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Idea of History by Jan Van Der Dussen, W. J. Van Der Dussen, R. G. Collingwood ISBN: 0192853066 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: New Perspectives on Historical Writing by Peter Burke ISBN: 0271021179 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (5th Edition) by Mark T. Gilderhus ISBN: 0130448249 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.20 |
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