International handbook of historical studies : : contemporary research and theory / [electronic resource] / edited by Georg G. Iggers and Harold T. Parker.. — Westport, Conn. : : Greenwood Press,, 1979.. — xii, 452 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the transformation of historical studies in historical perspective / Georg G. Iggers -- Philosophy and theory of history / Louis O. Mink -- The new demographic history / Richard T. Vann -- The role of theory and measurement in economic history / Jerzy Topolski -- Some recent tendencies in social history / Geoff Eley -- The psychological study of history / Richard L. Schoenwald -- The new political history: progress and prospects / Philip R. VanderMeer -- The autonomy of intellectual history / Leonard Krieger -- Historiography and linguistics / Nancy S. Struever -- The United States / Laurence Veysey -- France / Jean Glénisson -- Great Britain / Harold T. Parker -- Federal republic of Germany / Georg G. Iggers -- Italy / A. William Salomone -- Japan / Yasushi Yamanouchyi -- The Soviet Union: historiography since Stalin / Samuel H. Baron and Nancy W. Heer -- Soviet studies in social history / Jerzy Topolski -- Poland / Andrzej F. Grabski --German Democratic Republic / Hans Schleier -- Rumania / Luciana Boia -- The People's Republic of China / Arif Dirlik and Laurence Schneider -- Latin America: a dissenting view of "Latin American history in world perspective" / Charles Bergquist -- India: recent writing on the history of British India / N. Gerald Barrier -- Sub-saharan Africa / J.F.Ade. Ajayi and E.J. Alagoa -- Some concluding obsedrvations / Harold T. Parker.