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From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel.

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 his

Varieties Of History From Voltaire to the Present

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      Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 9/12/1973 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780394719627, 978-0394719627
      ISBN10: 039471962X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel.

      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 his

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