New Historicism

Author: (American) Robinson
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a representative work of the renowned American historian Robinson. The author proposes using a comprehensive multi-factor perspective to analyze history, breaking through the traditional focus on political history and expanding the scope of historical understanding. It emphasizes that the utility of historical research lies in understanding the present through history and predicting the future. The book was translated into Chinese by He Bingzong in the 1920s. He believed that the historical thought reflected in New History, "was very suitable as a guiding needle for Chinese scholars studying history." As a major work systematically introducing Western historical theory and methodology, New History has had a profound impact on the modernization of Chinese historiography since the May Fourth Movement.