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Modernizing England's past : = English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernizing England's past :/ Michael Bentley.
Reminder of title:	English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /
Author:	Bentley, Michael,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Historiography - History - 19th century. - England -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616181
ISBN:	9780511616181 (ebook)

Modernizing England's past : = English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /
Bentley, Michael,1948-

Modernizing England's past :English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /Michael Bentley. - 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - The Wiles lectures. - Wiles lectures..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.

ISBN: 9780511616181 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799040
Historiography
--History--England--19th century.

LC Class. No.: D13.5 / .E64 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 907.2042

Modernizing England's past : = English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 /
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