TY - BOOK AU - Geyl, Pieter, TI - Debates with historians U1 - 907 GEY PY - 1955/// CY - Groningen PB - J. B. Wolters KW - Histography KW - Addresses, essays, lectures N1 - Ranke in the light of the Catastrophe .--Macaulay in his essays. --C arlye ; his reputation and influence.--Michelet and his history of the French Revolution.--Toynbee's system of civilizations. --Prophets of do om (Sorokin and Toynbee).--Toynbee once more ; empiricism or apriorism. --Toynbee the prophet (the last four volumes).--The national state and writers of Netherlands history.- The French historians and Talleyrand. --Latter-day Napolean worship .--The American Civil War and the problem of inevitability .--Historical inevitability (Isaiah Berlin.) ER -