The Varieties of History
From Voltaire to the Present
I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History. -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University of New YorkThis book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography. -Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced StudyIt is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of histor…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-78383-7
- EAN: 9780307783837
- Produktnummer: 15718248
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 544 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'210 KB
Über den Autor
A recognized authority on modern Europe, Fritz Stern (1938-2016) was a Seth Low Professor of History and former provost at Columbia University. He held three degrees from Columbia, where he taught for over four decades. He also taught at Cornell, Yale, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Konstanz in West Germany, and as Élie Halévy Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He received a DLitt from Oxford in 1985 and the Leopold-Lucas Prize from the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1984. His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present; Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Politics of Cultural Despair; and The Failure of Illiberalism.
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