The Varieties of History ─ From Voltaire to the Present.

"I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University of New York

"This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography." —Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study

"It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history." —Crane Brinton

A recognized authority on modern Europe, Fritz Stern?(1938–2016) was a Seth Low Professor of History and former provost at Columbia University. He held three degrees from Columbia, where he taught for over four decades. He also taught at Cornell, Yale, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Konstanz in West Germany, and as Elie Halevy Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He received a DLitt from Oxford in 1985 and the Leopold-Lucas Prize from the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the University of Tubingen in 1984. His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present;?Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award;?The Politics of Cultural Despair;?and?The Failure of Illiberalism.