Introduction

The yearly periodical Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography) is the outcome of a project by scholars of the Universities of Trieste and of Firenze and was first implemented in 1995. Cromohs was born at the beginning of the 1990s as a response to the challenge of telematics - particularly the Web with related technologies - to the humanities and to scientific communication in general. Since its foundation, therefore, this journal recognized as its objective that of exploiting new opportunities given by IT applications for publishing and academic information exchange, especially in the field of the historical studies. Cromohs has been the first entirely and exclusively electronic review devoted to the history of modern historiography (even if other valuable undertakings in the same discipline have appeared more recently); it has been also among the first wholly electronic periodicals ever published in the Web. It promotes the use of the Internet for information purposes and for facilitating the circulation of academic production, with special reference to such themes as the development of the historical culture and consciousness in the modern age (historiography, erudition, historical methodologies, philosophies of history, didactics of historical subjects, history as a profession, history in the universities, individual historians).

Rolando Minuti & Guido Abbattista