{"product_id":"the-varieties-of-history-isbn-9780394719627","title":"The Varieties of History","description":"From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of History.\u003c\/i\u003e\"—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This 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 Study\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history.\"—Crane Brinton1. THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY: \u003ci\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn History: Advice to a Journalist\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Abbe Dubos\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Louis XIV\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Usefulness of History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2. THE CRITICAL MEHTOD: \u003ci\u003eBarthold Niebuhr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition: \u003ci\u003eHistory of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition: \u003ci\u003eHistory of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e3. THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY:\u003ci\u003e Leopold von Ranke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: \u003ci\u003eHistories of Romance and Germanic Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFragment from the 1830’s\u003cbr\u003eFragment from the 1860’s\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e4. NATIONAL HISTORY AND LIBERALISM: \u003ci\u003eAugustin Thierry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Letter I: \u003ci\u003eThe History of France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5. HISTORY AND LITERATURE: \u003ci\u003eThomas Babington Macaulay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6. HISTORY AS BIOGRAPHY: \u003ci\u003eThomas Carlyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn History\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. HISTORY AS A NATIONAL EPIC: \u003ci\u003eJules Michelet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Introduction: \u003ci\u003eThe People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. POSITIVISTIC HISTORY AND ITS CRITCS: \u003ci\u003eHenry Thomas Buckle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJohann Droysen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuckle: From General Introduction, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Civilization in England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDroysen:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eArt and Method\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e9. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: \u003ci\u003eKarl Marx \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFriedrich Engels; Jean Jaures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarx and Engels: From \u003ci\u003eThe German Idealogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJaures: Critical and General Introduction: \u003ci\u003eHistoire socialiste de la Revolution francaise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. HISTORY AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProspectuses of Historische Zeitscrift, Revue Historique, English Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. THE ETHOS OF A SCIENTIFIC HISTORIAN: \u003ci\u003eN. D. Fustel de Coulanges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Inaugural Lecture\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to \u003ci\u003eThe History of Political Institutions of Ancient France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. ON THE TRAINING OF HISTORIANS: \u003ci\u003eTheodor Mommsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRectorial Address\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e13. AN AMERICAN DEFINITION OF HISTORY: \u003ci\u003eFrederick Jackson Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Significance of History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e14. HISTORY AS A SCIENCE: \u003ci\u003eJ. B. Bury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInaugural Address: \u003ci\u003eThe Science of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e1. CLIO REDISCOVERED: \u003ci\u003eG. M. Trevelyan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eClio, A Muse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. SPECIALIZATION AND HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS: \u003ci\u003eLord Acton \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHenry Berr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActon: Letter to the Contributors to the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerr: About Our Program \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e3. A “NEW HISTORY” IN AMERICA: \u003ci\u003eJames Harvey Robinson \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCharles A. Beard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobinson and Beard: Preface: \u003ci\u003eThe Development of Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobinson: From \u003ci\u003eThe New History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. HISTORICISM AND ITS PROBLEMS: \u003ci\u003eFriedrich Meinecke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValues and Causalities in History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5. HISTORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION: \u003ci\u003eJ. Huizinga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6. ECONOMIC HISTORY: \u003ci\u003eGeorge Unwin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJ. H. Clapham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnwin: The Teaching of Economic History in University Tutorial Classes\u003cbr\u003eClapham: Economic History As a Discipline\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e7. HISTORICAL RELATIVISM: \u003ci\u003eCharles A. Beard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat Noble Dream\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e8. HISTORY UNDER MORDERN DICTATORSHIPS: \u003ci\u003eN. N. Pokrovsky, Walter Frank, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eK. A. von Muller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePovrovsky: The Tasks of the Society of Marxist Historians\u003cbr\u003eThe Tasks of Marxist Historical Science in the Reconstruction Period\u003cbr\u003eFrank: From \u003ci\u003eGuild and Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVon Muller: Editor’s Note to the \u003ci\u003eHistorische Zeitschrift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: \u003ci\u003eThomas Cochran and Richard Hofstadter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCochran: The Social Sciences and the Problem of Historical Synthesis\u003cbr\u003eHofstadter: History and the Social Sciences\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e10. HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE: \u003ci\u003eL. B. Namier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory\u003cbr\u003eHuman Nature in Politics\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e11. CULTURAL HISTORY AS A SYNTHESIS: \u003ci\u003eJacques Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural History: A Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e12. TIME, HISTORY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: \u003ci\u003eFernand Braudel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory and the Social Sciences: The Long Term\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e13. SOCIAL HISTORY: \u003ci\u003eH. J. Perkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e14. A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: \u003ci\u003eR. W. Fogel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe new Economic History: Its Findings and Methods\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e15. CLIO AND CRISIS: \u003ci\u003eC. Vann Woodward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClio with SoulA recognized authority on modern Europe, \u003cb\u003eFritz Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eThe 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\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for a National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Cultural Despair;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Failure of Illiberalism\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303401967845,"sku":"NP9780394719627","price":17.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394719627.jpg?v=1767742039","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-varieties-of-history-isbn-9780394719627","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}