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New History? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Peter Shaw |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,596 Words, 16,407 Characters |
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THE NEW HISTORY AND THE OLD
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1987
209 pp., $20.00
In a series of modulated, carefully argued essays written over the past decade, historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has traced the contribution of contemporary historical studies to the cultural crisis of our time. By abandoning the traditional purposes and methods of history and replacing them with a so-called New History, contemporary historians have lent themselves to an assault on the fundamental values underlying Western civilization. The cultural implications of the New History, despite its having come to dominate the profession, have been obscured by its practitioners and either ignored or denied by other historians. It is accordingly of considerable importa...
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...monstration of the virtues historians must pursue if they are to contribute to rather than undermine whatever cultural development the West has been fortunate enough so far to have achieved. As a result, her corrective effort is destined to stand out when our own period--one that will command interest chiefly for the pathology of its departures from common sense and reason--becomes history.
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