Historiography in the twentieth century : from scientific objectivity to the postmodern challenge

A preeminent intellectual historian here examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based since history's emergence as a professional discipline in the nineteenth century, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and called into question the very possibility of objective history. An expanded English version of: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. c1993. x, 182 pages ; 23 cm