| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Klio macht Karriere: Die Institutionalisierung der Geschichtswissenschaft in Frankreich und denUSA in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Clio makes careers: The institutionalization of the study of history in France and the USA in the second half of the 19th century). By Gabriele Lingelbach. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. 819 pp. € 84.00, ISBN 3-525-35177-1.) In German.

This book is the polar opposite of Peter Novick's now-classic That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (1988). Novick tackled processes of professionalization and disciplinary formation through critical exegesis of a series of coherently related intellectual controversies, intimately linked to politics and the surrounding public climate and tied together by the recurring concern with objectivity. In contrast, Gabriele Lingelbach develops an aridly institutionalist framework for her account of the growth of academic history in France and the United States, one that renders both the intellectual content of historical studies and their political-cultural valencies largely epiphenomenal. Despite the ambition of the comparative research design and the impressive empirical research, the sheer wearying density of this book effectively kills the reader's interest. The author's stolidly rigorous adherence to the literal terms of her chosen inquiry combined with the book's schematic architecture and leadenness of prose militate disastrously against its potential contribution.

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