28131 - Historiography
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5.3. Syllabus
I. Hesitation times: reflections on the «crisis of History».
II. Formation and first development processes of national communities of professional historians.
1. Science of history and the community of historians in german.
1.1. Pioneers. Göttingen University. – Johann G. Herder and Barthold G. Niebuhr.- Historismus. Historiography of the German Nation (Ranke, Droysen, Treitschke, and Meinecke).
1.2. Twentieth Century. Diverse Perspectives vs. integrated perspectives.- The German Catastrophe and normalisation in the fifties and sixties.- The School Bochum-Bielefeld.- Conceptual History (Reinhard Koselleck).- The history of the science of History: interdisziplinäre matrix in Jörn Rüssen and his disciples.- Other tendencies and streams (Alltagsgeschichte, Mnemohistoire…).
2. Nearby a school: Annales and the french contemporary historiography.
2.1. Pioneers. L´Ecole méthodique: positivist French school (Monod, Lavisse, Langlois, Seignobos).
2.2. The school of Annales since its birth throughout the World War II. Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre.
2.3. The Braudel Period: Annales since 1945. – The followers of Annales. Third, and¿perhaps other generations?- The profession of historian in France.
3. Biritish historiography in the XXth century.
3.1. Pioneers. National liberal tradition in British Historiography (Carlyle, Macaulay, Acton, Butterfield, and Namier).
3.2. British Marxist Historians (Hill, Thompson, Samuel, Hobsbawm).
3.3. Other ways, other schools: From the Cambridge Group and the econometers, to the Cultural and Subaltern Studies.
4. The United States: providentialism and internationalisation.
4.1. First American historiography. Puritanism, romanticism, and nationalism (Henry Adams).
4.2. The new history and the Frontier Theses.
4.3. To the other shore of the Atlantic. The American hegemony (from consensus historiography, to an international opening).
4.4. To the other shore of the Pacific: Historiography’s Globalisation (Australia, New Zeeland and Asia).
5. Historiography in Spain (XIX th and XX th centuries).
5.1. Academic Historiography in Nineteenth Century.
5.2. The professionalization (1900-1936).
5.3. Professors under Franco, Franco’s Professors: Zero Hour and the normalisation in the historiography under Franco.
5.4. A distended transition: the making of a democratic historiography in Spain.
III. The crisis of major paradigms and some other problems of contemporary science of history: narration, memory, and historical revissionisms. Post-modernity and history of emotions.