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Author Iggers, Georg G.

Title The German conception of history : the national tradition of historical thought from Herder to the present / by Georg G. Iggers.

Publication Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1983.

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Edition Rev. ed., 1st Wesleyan pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-380) and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter I: Introduction; II: The Origins of German Historicism: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN HISTORICAL THOUGHT FROM HERDER'S COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE-ORIENTED NATIONALISM TO THE STATE-CENTERED EXCLUSIVE NATIONALISM OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION; III: The Theoretical Foundations of German Historicism I: Wilhelm von Humboldt; IV: The Theoretical Foundations of German Historicism II: Leopold von Ranke; V: The High Point of Historical Optimism-The ""Prussian School""
VI: The ""Crisis of Historicism"" I: THE PHILOSOPHIC CRITIQUE: COHEN, DILTHEY, WINDELBAND, RICKERT, WEBERVII: The ""Crisis of Historicism"" II: ERNST TROELTSCH AND FRIEDRICH MEINECKE; VIII: The Decline of the German ""Idea"" of History: THE IMPACT OF TWO WORLD WARS AND TOTALITARIANISM ON GERMAN HISTORICAL THOUGHT; IX: Epilogue; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography.
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Subject Germany -- Historiography.
Germany.
Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Iggers, Georg G. German conception of history. Rev. ed., 1st Wesleyan pbk. ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1983 0819560804 (DLC) 83001337 (OCoLC)9280723
ISBN 9780819573612 (electronic book)
0819573612 (electronic book)
0819560804
9780819560803