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Book Synopsis Born in Germany, Georg Iggers escaped from Nazism to the United States in his adolescence where he became one of the most distinguished scholars of European intellectual history and the history of historiography. In his lectures, delivered all over the world, and in his numerous books, translated into many languages, Georg Iggers has reshaped historiography and indefatigably promoted cross-cultural dialogue. This volume reflects the profound impact of his oeuvre. Among the contributors are leading intellectual historians but also younger scholars who explore the various cultural contexts of modern historiography, focusing on changes of European and American scholarship as well as non-Western historical writing in relation to developments in the West. Addressing these changes from a transnational perspective, this well-rounded volume offers an excellent introduction to the field, which will be of interest to both established historians and graduate students.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments
Introduction
Q. Edward Wang
PART I: THEORIES
Chapter 1. Ideas of Periodization in the West
Donald R. Kelley
Chapter 2. What is Distinctive about Modern Historiography?
Allan Megill
Chapter 3. War and Peace: Against Historical Realism
Hayden White
Chapter 4. Objectivity and Opposition: Some Émigré Historians in the 1930s and Early 1940s
Edoardo Tortarolo
Chapter 5. Of Nations, Nationalism, and National Identity: Reflections on the Historiographical Organization of the Past
Daniel Woolf
Chapter 6. “Won’t You Tell Me, Where Have All the Good Times Gone?” On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Modernization Theory for Historical Study
Chris Lorenz
Chapter 7. Historiography, Social Sciences, and the Master Narratives
Bo Stråth
Chapter 8. Georg G. Iggers and the Challenge of A Poststructuralist Historiography
D. A. Jeremy Telman
Chapter 9. Future-Directed Elements of a European Historical Culture
Jörn Rüsen
PART II: SCOPE
Chapter 10. Transnational Approaches to Historical Sciences in the Twentieth Century: International Historical Congresses and Organizations
Jürgen Kocka
Chapter 11. Cross-Cultural Developments of Modern Historiography: Examples from East Asia, the Middle East, and India
Q. Edward Wang
Chapter 12. Time and Space in Chinese Historiography: Concepts of Centrality in the History and Literature of the Three Kingdoms
Roger V. Des Forges
Chapter 13. Georg G. Iggers and the Changes in Modern Chinese Historiography
Chen Qineng and Jiang Peng
Chapter 14. The Korean Conception of History: Shin Ch’aeho’s Nationalistic Historiography
Gi-Bong Kim
Chapter 15. “Historiology” and Historiography: An East Asian Perspective
Masayuki Sato
Chapter 16. Curriculum Matters: Teaching World History in the US in the Twentieth Century
Eckhardt Fuchs
Chapter 17. Challenges to the History of Historiography in an Age of Globalization
Matthias Middell and Frank Hadler
PART III: CASES
Chapter 18. Why Davila? John Adams and His Discourses
Zdenka Gredel-Manuele
Chapter 19. The Enlightenment on Trial: Reinhart Koselleck’s Interpretation of Aufklärung
Franz Leander Fillafer
Chapter 20. Constitutional and Economic History at the University of Berlin, 1890–1933
Pavel Kolár
Chapter 21. Border Regions, Hybridity, and National Identity: The Cases of Alsace and Masuria
Stefan Berger
Chapter 22. “Tons of Wasted Paper”? Jürgen Kuczynski and East German Historiography
Axel Fair-Schulz
Chapter 23. Going to the Source: Historical Records and Interpretations of the East German Dictatorship
Gregory R. Witkowski
Chapter 24. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Resistance in the Politics of Memory and Historiography in Post War Italy
Gustavo Corni
Chapter 25. “Let the Dead Bury the Living”: Daniel Libeskind’s Monumental Counter-History
Ewa Domanska
Appendix
Georg G. Iggers: A Brief Biography
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
