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Book Review
Methods and Theory
| Constantin Fasolt. The Limits of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xxi, 326. $40.00.
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| For Constantin Fasolt, the limits of history can be found not by a customary analysis of historical methodology but only by the study of history's foundational event, the historical revolution in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That revolution was the key force in replacing the world of the Middle Ages dominated by custom, tradition, and universalism with one marked by liberty and its manifestations: the self-assertion, autonomy, and sovereignty of individuals and states. |
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