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100	1		_aDavies, Stephen _922582
245	1	0	_aEmpiricism and history / _cStephen Davies
260			_aHoundsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; _aNew York: _bPalgrave, _c2003.
300			_avii, 163 p.; _c22 cm.
440		0	_aTheory and history _922583
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 152-160) and index.
505			_aIntroduction Empiricism and debates about history Empiricism, knowledge and induction Empirical knowledge and the human past 1 The Creation of Empiricai History Historical writing before the coming of empiricism The historical revolution and its origins The course and growth of the ’historical revolution’ The definition of empirical method The rise of empirical antiquarianism Speculative history and the Enlightenment response to antiquarianism The combination of speculative history and antiquarianism 2 The Perfection of Empirical History Difficulties and problems Ranke and his work The growth of professional history The spread of professional hisstory Critics of empirical history The positivist challenge The Idealist alternative Dilthey and ultra-historicism The persistence of empirical method 3 The Transformation of Biography in Empirical History The relationship between history and biography Classical and medieval biography Empirical biography in the nineteenth century The nature and qualities of empirical biography Prosopography and psychohistory Empirical historical biography - the case of Hitler Empirical historical biography - the case of Gladstone Alternatives to empirical biography 4 The Empirical History of Institutions The nature and importance of institutions Empirical history and institutions Ecclesiastical history The origins of legal history Constitutional history - the fall of the Whigs Administrative history The history of the family and household - an empirical success story The history of family relations History of criminal law and punishment 5 Political History - The Master Topic? What is political history? Political history - non-empirical and structural approaches Empirical political history Why political history is important for many empirical historians Seventeenth-century England - the challenge to empiricism Seventeenth-century England - the empirical response Eighteenth-century Britain The French Revolution (?) 6 Economic History and Empiricism The nature and origins of economic history Early economic history in France and England Economic history and historical economics in Germany The formation of empirical economic history in Britain The early years of professional economic history Empirical debate - standard of living and quality of life The debate of enclosures Other empirical debates Empirical research and the growth of knowledge The empirical history of slavery and ’cliometrics’ The future of empirical economic history 7 History of ideas - The Empirical Turn? A Trojan Horse? The origins of intellectual history The nature of traditional intellectual history A. O. Lovejoy and the notion of ’unit ideas’ The empirical revolution in history of ideas The impact of empiricism on history of ideas Critics and sceptics Other types of intellectual history
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650		0	_aExperience _xHistory. _922585
650		0	_aHistory _xStudy and teaching. _922571
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