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Book SynopsisCollections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality.
Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration from Cyrillic Notes on the Contributors Preface; Henry Kozicki Introduction: Contemporary Historiography: Some Kicks in the Old Coffin; Sidney Monas PART ONE: OBJECT AND SUBJECT IN HISTORY Rationality and History; Georg G. Iggers Text, Context, and Psychology in Intellectual History; Gerald N. Izenberg Whither History? Reflections on the Comparison between Historians and Scientists; Theodore K. Rabb The Sociological Historiography of Charles Tilly; Leon J. Goldstein Dialectical Rationality in History: A Paradigmatic Approach to Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Michael A. Kissell PART TWO: SOURCES, RESOURCES AND EXPLANATIONS 'A Fetishism of Documents'?: The Salience of Source-based History; Arthur Marwick Marxism and Historians of the Family; Richard T. Vann 'They Were Not Quite Like Us': The Presumption of Qualitative Difference in Historical Writing; Eero Loone Strategies of Causal Explanation in History; Andrus Park Index
