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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By

thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of

English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, Michael

Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers

the first full analysis of English historiography in this crucial

period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going

beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in

order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a

rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley

does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or

'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new

styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood

the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually

outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that

threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had

intended to sustain.

Prelude: after the Whigs

Part I. The Whig Legacy:

1. Constitution and nation

2. Church and state

3. Empire and war

4. Ghosts and intimations

Part II. Modernist Investments:

5. New historians, new histories

6. The new eighteenth century

7. Ideological environments

8. Modernist method

Coda: after the modernists

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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.