Hayden White - Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Johns Hopkins University Press | 1973 | ISBN: 0801814693, 0801817617 | English | 462 pages | PDF | 51.38 MB

Hayden White's METAHISTORY is a sophisticated analysis of historical methodology in the nineteenth century. Without a doubt, the book is brilliant. White analyzes the poetic and linguistic structure behind the writings of historians and philosophers of history. He focuses on the works of Michelet, Ranke, Toqueville, Burckhardt, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Croce. The result is a compelling look at how the methodological structure of historical writing changed through the course of the nineteenth century.