The Many Faces of Clio: Cross-cultural Approaches to HistoriographyEssays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers

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.

Table of Contents:
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