A Historiography Of The Modern Social Sciences
by Philippe Fontaine /
2014 / English / PDF
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A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on
the ways in which the histories of history, psychology,
anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science have been
written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters
written by the leading historians of each discipline establishes
significant parallels and contrasts and makes the case for a
comparative interdisciplinary historiography. This comparative
approach helps explain historiographical developments on the basis
of factors specific to individual disciplines and the social,
political, and intellectual developments that go beyond individual
disciplines. All historians, including historians of the different
social sciences, encounter literatures with which they are not
familiar. This book will provide a broader understanding of the
different ways in which the history of the social sciences, and by
extension intellectual history, is written.
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on
the ways in which the histories of history, psychology,
anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science have been
written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters
written by the leading historians of each discipline establishes
significant parallels and contrasts and makes the case for a
comparative interdisciplinary historiography. This comparative
approach helps explain historiographical developments on the basis
of factors specific to individual disciplines and the social,
political, and intellectual developments that go beyond individual
disciplines. All historians, including historians of the different
social sciences, encounter literatures with which they are not
familiar. This book will provide a broader understanding of the
different ways in which the history of the social sciences, and by
extension intellectual history, is written.
