Franz Leander Fillafer specializes in European intellectual history and 18th-century cultural history. His publications to date have focused on the intellectual history of the Habsburg Empire, on the history of historiography and historical theory. As a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen he currently pursues a doctoral project entitled The Austrian Construction of the Enlightenment."

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

Born in Germany, Georg Iggers escaped from Nazism to the United States in his adolescence where he became one of the most distinguished scholars of European intellectual history and the history of historiography. In his lectures, delivered all over the world, and in his numerous books, translated into many languages, Georg Iggers has reshaped historiography and indefatigably promoted cross-cultural dialogue. This volume reflects the profound impact of his oeuvre. Among the contributors are leading intellectual historians but also younger scholars who explore the various cultural contexts of modern historiography, focusing on changes of European and American scholarship as well as non-Western historical writing in relation to developments in the West. Addressing these changes from a transnational perspective, this well-rounded volume offers an excellent introduction to the field, which will be of interest to both established historians and graduate students.