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This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works. Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White’s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content — which White dubs the "metahistorical element" — essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing as writing, Metahistory sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious.This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing Metahistory and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White’s and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone — in any discipline — who takes the past as a serious object of study

Historiography --- History --- Philosophy. --- History, Modern --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Philosophy --- Criticism

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A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen's theoretical project as an attempt to redefine the function of historiography within the context of a rising criticism of exemplar theories of history, and focuses on Droysen's claim that the goal underlying historical writing and reading should be the development of the subjective capacity to

Historiography --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Criticism --- Droysen, Johann Gustav,

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History --- Historiography. --- Oral history. --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- History, Modern --- Philosophy. --- Methodology --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Philosophy

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History as a science --- Droysen, Johann Gustav --- Historiography --- Historiographie --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Philosophie --- Aspect politique --- Droysen, Johann Gustav, --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Criticism

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The papers collected in this volume congeal around a debate about the ways and extent of the dominance of linear time and progressive history and the concomitant delineation of the nation in Chinese and Japanese historiography. As China and Japan entered the global capitalist system of nation states, the Chinese and Japanese regimes implemented a number of reforms, which resulted in transformations that affected everyday experience. In the face of imperialism and the perceived threat of being split up, the Meiji and late Qing governments radically reoriented policies in order to become wealthy and powerful in the global arena. People not only began to experience time and space in new ways, but elites also were increasingly exposed to Western theories of history and concepts of nationhood, which became dominant. These changes contributed to the production of new types of historical consciousness and collective identity. The essays in this volume each provide a perspective on the complex ways in which imagining national and regional identity in East Asia were and continue to be enmeshed with visions of time and history. This book should be of interest to all those who are interested in nationalism, modernity in China and Japan, global capitalism and the politics of time.

Historiography --- Time --- Nationalism --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Political aspects --- Criticism --- China --- Japan --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life