Companion to Western Historical Thought

Lloyd Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998). Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France (1983) and Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993).

• List of Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: The Cultural History of Historical Thought 1Lloyd Kramer and Sarah MazaPART I THE PRE-MODERN ORIGINS OF WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT1 Historiography in Ancient Israel 15John Van Seters2 Historical Thought in Ancient Greece 35Philip A. Stadter3 Historical Thought in Ancient Rome 60J. E. Lendon4 Historical Thought in Medieval Europe 78Gabrielle M. Spiegel5 Historical Thought in the Renaissance 99Paula FindlenPART II THE SHAPING OF MODERN WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT6 Historical Thought in the Era of the Enlightenment 123Johnson Kent Wright7 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and Hegel 143Harold Mah8 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of Politics 166Harry Liebersohn9 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and Bancroft 185Thomas N. Baker10 Marxism and Historical Thought 205Walter L. AdamsonPART III PATTERNS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical Thought 225Georg G. Iggers12 The History of Armed Power 243Peter Paret13 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian Paradigms 262David A. Bell14 Anthropology and the History of Culture 277William M. Reddy15 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Theory of Relativistic Objectivity 297Ken Alder16 Language, Literary Studies, and Historical Thought 319Susan A. Crane17 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Thought 337Lynn Hunt18 Redefining Historical Identities: Sexuality, Gender, and the Self 357Carolyn J. Dean19 Historicizing Natural Environments: The Deep Roots of Environmental History 372Andrew C. IsenbergPART IV CHALLENGES TO THE BOUNDARIES OF WESTERN HISTORICAL THOUGHT20 The New World History 393Jerry H. Bentley21 Postcolonial History 417Prasenjit Duara22 The Multicultural History of Nations 432Donna R. Gabaccia23 New Technologies and Historical Knowledge 447James M. Murray24 The Visual Media and Historical Knowledge 466Robert A. RosenstoneConsolidated Bibliography 482Index 495

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