The rise and propagation of historical professionalism / Rolf Torstendahl.
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with v...
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New York, New York ; Oxfordshire, England :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Routledge approaches to history ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. History-writing, fragmentation, and professionalism
- 2. History-writing as professional production of knowledge
- 3. Historical professionalism : a changing product of communities within the discipline
- 4. A return of Historismus? Neo-institutionalism and the historical turn of the social sciences
- 5. Disputations, seminars, and the professional community : the break with all-round education for professional historians
- 6. Fact, truth, and text : the quest for a firm basis for historical knowledge around 1900
- 7. Integration and fragmentation of history : the international historical congresses
- 8. Global professionalism and global history
- 9. Entertainment, narratives, micro, and macro-versus problems
- 10. 'New results' and 'scientific revolutions' in history
- 11. Concluding remarks.