The Oxford History of Historical Writing : Volume 4: 1800-1945

Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945. Divided into four parts, it first covers the rise, consolidation, and crisis of European historical thought, and the professionalization and institutionalization of history. The chapters in Part II analyze how historical scholarship connected to various European national traditions. Part III considers the historical writing of Europe's 'Offspring': the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, and Spanish South America. The concluding part is devoted to histories of non-European cultural traditions: China, Japan, India, South East Asia, Turkey, the Arab world, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the fourth of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world. This volume aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field, and especially to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. Cover Contents List of Maps Notes on the Contributors Advisory Board Editors’ Introduction PART I: THE RISE, CONSOLIDATION, AND CRISIS OF EUROPEAN TRADITIONS 1. The Invention of European National Traditions in European Romanticism 2. The Intellectual Foundations of Nineteenth-Century ‘Scientific’ History: The German Model 3. Contemporary Alternatives to German Historicism in the Nineteenth Century 4. The Institutionalization and Professionalization of History in Europe and the United States 5. ‘Experiments in Modernization’: Social and Economic History in Europe and the United States, 1880–1940 6. Lay History: Official and Unofficial Representations, 1800–1914 7. Censorship and History, 1914–45: Historiography in the Service of Dictatorships PART II: HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND NATIONAL TRADITIONS 8. German Historical Writing 9. Historical Writing in France, 1800–1914 10. Shape and Pattern in British Historical Writing, 1815–1945 11. The Polycentric Structure of Italian Historical Writing 12. Historical Writing in Spain and Portugal, 1720–1930 13. Scandinavian Historical Writing 14. Historical Writing in the Low Countries 15. The Golden Age of Russian Historical Writing: The Nineteenth Century 16. East-Central European Historical Writing 17. Historical Writing in the Balkans PART III: EUROPE’S OFFSPRING 18. Writing American History, 1789–1945 19. The Writing of the History of Canada and of South Africa 20. Historical Writing in Australia and New Zealand 21. Historical Writing in Mexico: Three Cycles 22. Brazilian Historical Writing and the Building of a Nation 23. Historians in Spanish South America: Cross-References between Centre and Periphery PART IV: NON-EUROPEAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS 24. The Transformation of History in China and Japan 25. The Birth of Academic Historical Writing in India 26. Southeast Asian Historical Writing 27. Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historical Writing 28. Historical Writing in the Arab World 29. History in Sub-Saharan Africa Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A 5-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day, and from all over the world, volume 1 offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons--Book Jacket The fourth of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world, this volume offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945.