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The Roads to Modernity
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Victorian Minds
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A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectu
The New History and the Old
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Authors: Gertrude Himmelfarb
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the