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An extremely useful reference work and belongs in every college library....Remarkably comprehensive, and its contributors a well-qualified and cosmopolitan group. Fifteen are Americans, nine are not. The handbook is genuinely international in scope and in texture.Choice
Table of Contents
Introduction: the transformation of historical studies in historical perspective / Georg G. Iggers -- Philosophy and theory of history / Louis O. Mink -- The new demographic history / Richard T. Vann -- The role of theory and measurement in economic history / Jerzy Topolski -- Some recent tendencies in social history / Geoff Eley -- The psychological study of history / Richard L. Schoenwald -- The new political history: progress and prospects / Philip R. VanderMeer -- The autonomy of intellectual history / Leonard Krieger -- Historiography and linguistics / Nancy S. Struever -- The United States / Laurence Veysey -- France / Jean Glâenisson -- Great Britain / Harold T. Parker -- Federal republic of Germany / Georg G. Iggers -- Italy / A. William Salomone -- Japan / Yasushi Yamanouchyi -- The Soviet Union: historiography since Stalin / Samuel H. Baron and Nancy W. Heer -- Soviet studies in social history / Jerzy Topolski -- Poland / Andrzej F. Grabski --