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Author Costello, Paul.

Title World historians and their goals : twentieth-century answers to modernism / Paul Costello.

Publication Info. DeKalb [Ill.] : Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  907.2 C841W    Check Shelf
Description x, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-295) and index.
Contents World history in the west : an interrupted dialogue with providence -- Evolutionary ethics and the rise of the world state : the universal history of H.G. Wells -- The problem of Oswald Spengler -- The religious premises and goals of Arnold Toynbee's world history -- The imperatives of supersystem transitions : Pitirim Sorokin's metahistory -- Christopher Dawson : the tension between history and its end -- Lewis Mumford : the generalist as metahistorian -- William H. McNeill's ecological mythistory : toward an ambiguous future -- World history and eschatology : the goals of the metahistorians
Subject Historiography -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0875801730
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