pt. 1. The early phase: the emergence of history as a professional discipline: Classical historicism as a model for historical scholarship. The crisis of classical historicism. Economic and social history in Germany and the beginnings of historical sociology. American traditions of social history
pt. 2. The middle phase: the challenge of the social sciences: France: the Annales. Critical theory and social history: "historical social science" in the Federal Republic of Germany. Marxist historical science from historical materialism to critical anthropology
History and the challenge of postmodernism: Lawrence Stone and "the revival of narrative." From macro- to microhistory: the history of everyday life. The "linguistic turn": the end of history as a scholarly discipline? From the perspective of the 1990s.
