A Taxonomy for American Diplomatic History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3273857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen E Pelz, Stephen Pelz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204666 |
| OpenAlex | W2334509955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
A Taxonomy for American Diplomatic History From days of Herodotus and Thucydides to nineteenth century, politics, diplomacy, and warfare were central concerns for historians, but in I96os diplomatic historians began debating reasons for decline of their field. rise of new social history challenged primacy of political and diplomatic history because most social historians concentrated on mass phenomena below analytical level of nation state. In particular, extremely influential Annales school denigrated role of leaders and states, while stressing primacy of ecological, demographic, economic, and cultural factors for whole civilizations over long periods. One observer characterized rise of new social history as the most creative ferment in [the profession's] entire lifetime, but diplomatic historians did not participate. When editors of Journal of Interdisciplinary History projected The New History: I98os and Beyond, they included political, economic, demographic, anthropological, biographical, family, and quantitative approaches, but there was no new diplomatic history. pages of Social Science History are similarly almost completely without diplomatic history.1 most important cause of American diplomatic historians' crisis of confidence is split between new left and
Diplomacy · Diplomatic history · Economic history · International relations · Political economy · Political history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 2006 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |