Modern Historiography An Introduction (by Michael Bentley)

• 2003 edition.  182 pages
• Published by Routledge, London
• Softcover.  Format B.
• Very good condition.  Minor corner creases.  Bookshop price sticker on front cover.

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Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing.  It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.  It is a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys of:

• the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
• Romanticism
• The voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought
• The influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World
• The Annales school in France
• The effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and post-war moods. 

The book provides a clear and concise account of this crucial period of historical writing.