Acknowledgments
Introduction
Q. Edward Wang
PART I: THEORIES
Chapter 1. Ideas of Periodization in the
West
Donald R. Kelley
Chapter 2. What is Distinctive about Modern
Historiography?
Allan Megill
Chapter 3. War and Peace: Against Historical
Realism
Hayden White
Chapter 4. Objectivity and Opposition: Some
Émigré Historians in the 1930s and Early 1940s
Edoardo Tortarolo
Chapter 5. Of Nations, Nationalism, and
National Identity: Reflections on the Historiographical
Organization of the Past
Daniel Woolf
Chapter 6. “Won’t You Tell Me, Where Have All
the Good Times Gone?” On the Advantages and Disadvantages of
Modernization Theory for Historical Study
Chris Lorenz
Chapter 7. Historiography, Social Sciences, and
the Master Narratives
Bo Stråth
Chapter 8. Georg G. Iggers and the Challenge of
A Poststructuralist Historiography
D. A. Jeremy Telman
Chapter 9. Future-Directed Elements of a
European Historical Culture
Jörn Rüsen
PART II: SCOPE
Chapter 10. Transnational Approaches to
Historical Sciences in the Twentieth Century: International
Historical Congresses and Organizations
Jürgen Kocka
Chapter 11. Cross-Cultural Developments of
Modern Historiography: Examples from East Asia, the Middle East,
and India
Q. Edward Wang
Chapter 12. Time and Space in Chinese
Historiography: Concepts of Centrality in the History and
Literature of the Three Kingdoms
Roger V. Des Forges
Chapter 13. Georg G. Iggers and the Changes in
Modern Chinese Historiography
Chen Qineng and Jiang Peng
Chapter 14. The Korean Conception of History:
Shin Ch’aeho’s Nationalistic Historiography
Gi-Bong Kim
Chapter 15. “Historiology” and Historiography:
An East Asian Perspective
Masayuki Sato
Chapter 16. Curriculum Matters: Teaching World
History in the US in the Twentieth Century
Eckhardt Fuchs
Chapter 17. Challenges to the History of
Historiography in an Age of Globalization
Matthias Middell and Frank Hadler
PART III: CASES
Chapter 18. Why Davila? John Adams and His
Discourses
Zdenka Gredel-Manuele
Chapter 19. The Enlightenment on Trial:
Reinhart Koselleck’s Interpretation of Aufklärung
Franz Leander Fillafer
Chapter 20. Constitutional and Economic History
at the University of Berlin, 1890–1933
Pavel Kolár
Chapter 21. Border Regions, Hybridity, and
National Identity: The Cases of Alsace and Masuria
Stefan Berger
Chapter 22. “Tons of Wasted Paper”? Jürgen
Kuczynski and East German Historiography
Axel Fair-Schulz
Chapter 23. Going to the Source: Historical
Records and Interpretations of the East German Dictatorship
Gregory R. Witkowski
Chapter 24. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and
Resistance in the Politics of Memory and Historiography in Post War
Italy
Gustavo Corni
Chapter 25. “Let the Dead Bury the Living”:
Daniel Libeskind’s Monumental Counter-History
Ewa Domanska
Appendix
Georg G. Iggers: A Brief Biography
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Q. Edward Wang is Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Rowan University and has written and co-written several books in both English and Chinese, including The Ideas of History in the West: from Ancient Greece to the Present (1998); Postmodernism and Historiography: A Chinese-Western Comparison (2000), and Mirroring the Past: the Writing and Use of History in Imperial China (2005).
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