About the Author

Georg G. Iggers is an internationally recognized authority on intellectual history and comparative international historiography. He is the author of New Directions in Historiography (1975, 1985) and The German Conception of History (1968, 1983), both published by Wesleyan University Press. Iggers is Distinguished Professor of History emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Reviews

"No one looking for a well-informed introduction to some of the key views of history adopted by professional historians over the last century or so...could find a better one than this."--Richard J. Evans, History and Theory

"The book has all the virtues one associates with Georg Iggers--lucidity, detachment, balance, and the ability to reveal the relation between trends in historical writing and their political and cultural contexts."--Peter Burke, Cambridge University

""The new book has all the virtues one associates with Georg Iggers - lucidity, detachment, balance and the ability to reveal the relation between trends in historical writing and their political and cultural contexts.""--Peter Burke, Cambridge University

""The book has all the virtues one associates with Georg Iggers--lucidity, detachment, balance, and the ability to reveal the relation between trends in historical writing and their political and cultural contexts.""--Peter Burke, Cambridge University