The Historian and the Study of International Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6001623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon A Craig (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 1983-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/ahr/88.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2318755558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This was a formidable quartet, and their names are still capable of causing an involuntary nod of respect when they are mentioned; but I should be surprised to learn that their works were much read now.The importance of reading the older works even in one's special field seems to have diminished as a result of the great expectations of new discoveries engendered by the invention of scientific techniques for exploiting the archives; I and, as for general reading, so many books roll off the presses every year that it is easy to conclude that there is no time for reading the classics, which are, in any case, oldfashioned and out of date.This prejudice, for that is what it is, sometimes makes our critical judgments unbalanced, if not naive.It was surprising to find, in the special issue of the Journal of Modern History devoted to Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean,2 no mention of Mommsen's Roman History, although it too dealt with the Mediterranean as a physical and human unit and discussed such questions as overlapping civilizations, the Jews as a separate civilization, and the extension of Mediterranean culture to the Western world, and although it included descriptions of religion, money, industry, agriculture, the institutions and economy of war, architecture, art and literature, public morality, crime, cuisine, and other aspects of Mediterranean life from Egypt to Spain that are as rich as, and perhaps more disciplined than, Braudel's
Archaeology · Civilization · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Reading (process · Classics · European Political History Analysis · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2010 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |