The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism

Rolf Torstendahl is Emeritus Professor of History at Uppsala University.

Introduction 1. History-Writing, Fragmentation, and Professionalism 2. History-Writing as Professional Production of Knowledge 3. Historical Professionalism: A Changing Product of Communities Within the Discipline 4. A Return of Historismus?: Neo-Institutionalism and the Historical Turn of The Social Sciences 5. Disputations, Seminars, and the Professional Community: The Break with All-Round Education for Professional Historians 6. Fact, Truth, and Text: The Quest for a Firm Basis for Historical Knowledge Around 1900 7. Integration and Fragmentation of History: The International Historical Congresses 8. Global Professionalism and Global History 9. Entertainment, Narratives, Micro, and Macro – Versus Problems 10. “New Results” and “Scientific Revolutions” in History 11. Concluding Remarks