British and German Historiography, 1750-1950 Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers

by Stuchtey, Benedikt; Wende, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199202355
• ISBN10: 0199202354
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-17
• Publisher: OUP/German Historical Institute London

Summary

This volume compares British and German historiography from the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century. It examines the scope and impact of transfers, the potential of mutual perceptions, and the power and influence of national traditions. The book documents the intensecompetition between the British and the German scholarly communities, and also shows how, while it was not always easy to build bridges, they also profited from each other's work. Historians such as Ferguson, Gibbon, Niebuhr, Macaulay, Ranke, Stubbs, and Acton play a central role, as dophilosophical concepts such as historicism, positivism, and evolutionism. The comparison between the two historiographical cultures, and the investigation into the success or failure of transfers, especially in the age of imperialism and during the First World War, open up new perspectives both foran assessment of the intellectual relationship between the two countries and for an evaluation of the achievements of each historical tradition.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards a Comparative History of Anglo-German Historiographical Traditions and Transfers	1	(24)
Benedikt Stuchtey
Peter Wende
Universal History and National History: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century German Historians and the Scholarly Community	25	(24)
Ulrich Muhlack
Adam Ferguson's Histories in Germany: English Liberty, Scottish Vigour, and German Rigour	49	(18)
Fania Oz-Salzberger
Gibbon and German Historiography	67	(16)
Wilfried Nippel
Niebuhr in England: History, Faith, and Order	83	(16)
Norman Vance
Stubbs, Maitland, and Constitutional History	99	(24)
James Campbell
`A place among the English Classics': Ranke's History of the Popes and its British Readers	123	(36)
Patrick Bahners
Lord Acton and German Historiography	159	(14)
Hugh Tulloch
Views and Reviews: Mutual Perceptions of British and German Historians in the Late Nineteenth Century	173	(18)
Peter Wende
Historicism and the `Noble Science of Politics' in Nineteenth-Century Germany	191	(20)
Gangolf Hubinger
The Historicization of Political Economy?	211	(18)
Keith Tribe
English Positivism and German Historicism: The Reception of `Scientific History' in Germany	229	(22)
Eckhardt Fuchs
Historicism and Social Evolution	251	(14)
John Burrow
`Peoples without History' in British and German Historical Thought	265	(24)
Jurgen Osterhammel
`Westward the course of empire takes its way': Imperialism and the Frontier in British and German Historical Writing around 1900	289	(46)
Benedikt Stuchtey
The Role of British and German Historians in Mobilizing Public Opinion in 1914	335	(38)
Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
British Conservative Historiography and the Second World War	373	(28)
Reba N. Soffer
The Web and the Seams: Historiography in an Age of Specialization and Globalization	401	(9)
Peter Burke
Select Bibliography	410	(12)
Notes on Contributors	422	(5)
Index of Names	427