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The New History and the Old is a marvelously written, perfectly serious, yet vastly entertaining critique of current fashions in the writing of history--social history, psychoanalytic history, quantitative history, Marxist and neo-Marxist history, mentalit history. As the "new" history is coming to dominate the profession, Gertrude Himmelfarb argues, it tends to supplant rather than supplement the "old," which centered on political, constitutional, diplomatic, and intellectual events. The effect is not only to transform the discipline of history, but also to alter profoundly our sense of the past. A mode of history that belittles politics and ideas denigrates the political institutions and intellectual traditions that have shaped our past, and severs the continuity between past and present, leaving little that is usable in their place. This provocative analysis of the "revolution in history," as it has been called, has implications that go well beyond the discipline of history itself. It raises fundamental and far-reaching questions about the nature of our postmodern society and will undoubtedly arouse a good deal of discussion and debate along broad cultural lines. This is a serious, yet entertaining critique of current fashions in the writing of history--social history, psychoanalytic history, quantitative history, Marxist and neo-Marxist history. The "new" history, Himmelfarb argues, it tends to supplant rather then supplement the "old," which centered on political, constitutional, diplomatic, and intellectual events. It not only transforms the discipline of history, but also alters profoundly our sense of the past. A mode of history that belittles politics and ideas denigrates the political institutions and intellectual traditions that have shaped the past, and severs the continuity between past and present, leaving little that is usable, the author says. ISBN 0-674-61580-8: $20.00 History With The Politics Left Out -- Clio And The New History -- Two Nations Or Five Classes : The Historian As Sociologist -- The Group : British Marxist Historians -- Social History In Retrospect. Reflections Of A Chastened Father ; Recovering A Lost World -- Case Studies In Psychohistory. Edmund Burke : An Ambivalent Conservative ; James And John Stuart Mill : Ambivalent Rebels -- Is National History Obsolete? The Frenchness Of France ; The Englishness Of England -- Who Now Reads Macaulay? -- History And The Idea Of Progress -- Does History Talk Sense? Gertrude Himmelfarb. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Analyzes the social, psychoanalytic, quantitative, Marxist, and neo-Marxist styles of writing history and examines the impact of these on the view of the past.