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Hardcover with dustjacket. VIII, 248 pp. -(very fine copy).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 232 pages ; 23 cm. This book presents perspectives on the development of historiography in the twentieth century. Eight authors bring forward their analyses of the characteristics of the scholarly development in the field of history, each in a part of the world. Some leading aspects are used all through the book, such as the development of professionalism in history, new trends in the theory of history and their impact on historiography, institutional changes, etc. Thus is presented the historiographical development in Japan, China, Australia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Africa and North America. Even if this is not the whole of the world, the book more than any predecessor gives a worldwide perspective on historiography. A general discussion of the recent changes of historiography in different parts of the world has long been lacking. This book could serve to fil1 this lacuna, not least for the purposes of university courses. Two concluding chapters and an introduction bring forward general traits and specific characteristics. Contents: Assessing Professional Developments. Historiography in a Comparative Perspective / Rolf Torstendahl The Two Historiographical Cultures in Twentieth-Century Japan / Masayuki Sato Historical Writings in Twentieth-Century China: Methodological Innovation and Ideological Influence / Q. Edward Wang History in a New Country: Australians Debate Their Past / Stuart Macintyre Russian Historical Science within the Historiographical Culture and the Twentieth-Century Historiographical Project / Alexander Logunov Eastern European Historiography in the Twentieth Century / Attila Pok Flexible Response? Strategies of Academic Historians Towards Larger Markets for National Historiographies and Increasing Scientific Standards / Lutz Raphael Re-introducing the "People Without History": African Historiographies / E. S. Atieno Odhiambo No King in Israel? Individuals and Schools in American Historiography / Richard T. Vann History: Mutations, Crisis and Disciplinary Identity / Beatriz Ines Moreyra Reflections on "An Assessment of Twentieth-Century Historiography" / Irmline Veit-Brause.…

Cloth with dustjacket. VIII, 248 pp. . ISBN 9780803982529.

Stockholm, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2000. 8vo. 232 pp. Sewn as issued with dustwrapper. (KVHAA:s serie Konferenser, nr. 49.) From the library of Birgitta Odén. Softcover / Paperback.

Condition: Very Good. [Stockholm], 1995. 8:o. (14),+ 336 s. Sewn as issued. Festschrift to the Swedish historian Rolf Torstendahl upon his 60th birthday. With contributions by Georg C Iggers, Ottar Dahl, Jürgen Kocka and others. Softcover / Paperback.