World historians and their goals : twentieth century answers to modernism /
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| Author / Creator: | Costello, Paul |
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| Imprint: | DeKalb [Ill.] : Northern Illinois University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | x, 315 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Historiography -- History -- 20th century Historiography. History. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1386960 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. World History in the West: An Interrupted Dialogue with Providence
- 2. Evolutionary Ethics and the Rise of the World State: The Universal History of H. G. Wells
- 3. The Problem of Oswald Spengler
- 4. The Religious Premises and Goals of Arnold Toynbee's World History
- 5. The Imperatives of Supersystem Transitions: Pitirim Sorokin's Metahistory
- 6. Christopher Dawson: The Tension between History and Its End
- 7. Lewis Mumford: The Generalist as Metahistorian
- 8. William H. McNeill's Ecological Mythistory: Toward an Ambiguous Future
- 9. World History and Eschatology: The Goals of the Metahistorians.