| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Christoph Strupp. Johan Huizinga: Geschichtswissenschaft als Kulturgeschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 2000. Pp. 352.

In the decades after World War II, historians from many European countries who were dissatisfied with writing political history in an exclusively national perspective attempted to follow the example given by two historians from two of the smaller European nations, Jakob Burckhardt from Switzerland and Johan Huizinga from the Netherlands. Both Burckhardt and Huizinga were pioneers in the field of cultural history, and both had been considered as outsiders of the profession in their own time. Interestingly enough, the impressive intellectual caliber of Huizinga was first recognized outside the Netherlands by historians who cherished Burckhardt's achievements, as for example Hans-Rudolf Guggisberg from Basel. Today, Huizinga's rank among historians of all European countries is well established. Between 1948 and 1953, Huizinga's complete works were published in nine volumes, and between 1989 and 1991 his letters in three volumes. . . .

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