ABSTRACT
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the propagation of these different ideals and of new educational forms from the late 18th century to the present, from Ranke’s state-centrism to a historiography borne by social theories.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
chapter |16 pages
History-Writing, Fragmentation, and Professionalism
chapter |23 pages
History-Writing as Professional Production of Knowledge
chapter |9 pages
A Return of Historismus?
Neo-institutionalism and the Historical Turn of the Social Sciences
chapter |21 pages
Disputations, Seminars, and the Professional Community
The Break with All-Round Education for Professional Historians
chapter |30 pages
Fact, Truth, and Text
The Quest for a Firm Basis for Historical Knowledge around 1900