Why history? : a history / Donald Bloxham.

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes t...

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Main Author: Bloxham, Donald (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • On 'Modern Historical Consciousness'
  • Continuity and Change in Justifications for History
  • 1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric
  • Introduction
  • Genealogy, Ethnography, and Historical Consciousness
  • Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth
  • Useful and Pleasurable History
  • From Greek to Roman Historiography
  • Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek in Rome
  • Roman Historiography in the Late Republic
  • History under Monarchy
  • Pre- and Anti-Christian Influences
  • 2: History, Faith, Fortuna
  • Introduction
  • Classical-Christian Fusion
  • Christianity and Judaism
  • Early Christian Historiography
  • Christian Philosophy of History
  • On Causation: Determinism and Human Agency
  • 3: The 'Middle Age'
  • Introduction
  • Annals and Ancestry
  • Exemplarity, Allegory, and the Presence of the Past
  • Periodization and the Conceptualization of Change
  • Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, and History as Communion
  • Socio-Economic Change and the Function of Genealogies
  • History and Developments in Political Identity
  • 'Others' Present and Past
  • 4: Renaissances and Reformations
  • Introduction
  • Re-Encounters
  • Romans, Greeks, Goths
  • Developments in Source Criticism?
  • Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes
  • The Return of Similitudo Temporum
  • Sixteenth-Century French Historiography
  • Modern Contextualization?
  • Montaigne
  • Church, State, and Historianship: A Comparative Perspective
  • Ecclesiastical History and Source Criticism
  • History in the Scientific Seventeenth Century
  • 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: Bolingbroke and Vico
  • The French Enlightenment
  • The Scottish Enlightenment
  • The German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism
  • Hegel
  • Marx
  • 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis
  • Introduction
  • Nationalism, Romanticism, Whiggery
  • Historicism and Developmental Thought
  • Alternatives to the Dominant German Model in the 1860s
  • Reactions to Historicism
  • New Philosophies of Historical 'Neutrality' from the Later Nineteenth Century
  • 'Progressive' History
  • The Decline of Historicism and the Rise of German Social History
  • 7: Turns to the Present
  • Introduction
  • Structures and Superstructures
  • Structures and Events
  • From Interwar to Post-War
  • Social History, Sociology, Modernization
  • Social History, Experience, Identity
  • Language and Culture
  • Theory and History
  • New New Histories
  • 8: Justifying History Today
  • Introduction
  • History as Speculative Philosophy
  • History as Method
  • Knowledge and Human Interests
  • History as Practical Lesson
  • History as Moral Lesson
  • History as Travel, History as Tolerance?
  • History as Therapy
  • Varieties of Emancipatory History
  • History as Emancipation III
  • History as Emancipation II
  • History as Emancipation I
  • History as Identity.