Scientific history : experiments in history and politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the Cold War /
Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. We are experiencing a "scientific turn" in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and against this backdrop, Elena Aronova argues that there was a "scientific turn" in histo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. We are experiencing a "scientific turn" in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and against this backdrop, Elena Aronova argues that there was a "scientific turn" in history at every turn, for at least a century. Bigger History maps out the submerged history of historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools and values of the natural sciences by examining several waves of experimentation with the scale of history and its method, each of which surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades around 1900 to the ruptures of the Cold War. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226761381 022676138X |