Description |
xviii, 197 pages ; 19 cm |
Contents |
I: History, men, and time -- The choice of the historian -- History and men -- Historical time -- The idol of origins -- The boundaries between past and present -- Understanding the present by the past -- Understanding the past by the present -- II: Historical observation -- General characteristics of historical observation -- Evidence -- The transmission of evidence -- III: Historical criticism -- An outline of the history of the critical method -- In pursuit of fraud and error -- Toward a logic of the critical method -- IV: Historical analysis -- Judging or understanding? -- From the diversity of human functions to the unity of consciences -- Nomenclature -- IV: Historical causation |
Notes |
Translation of: Apologie pour l'histoire |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Translation of Apologie pour l'histoire |
Subject |
Historians.
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Historiography.
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History -- Methodology.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Author |
Putnam, Peter.
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ISBN |
0719000564 |
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071903292X |
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9780719000560 |
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9780719032929 |
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