| Description |
xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the battle of basic assumptions -- History: essential knowledge about the past -- How the discipline of history evolved: from Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos -- How the discipline of history evolved: through the twentieth into the twenty-first century -- The historian at work: forget 'facts', foreground sources -- The historian at work: the communication of historical knowledge -- Theory, the science, the humanities -- Conclusion: crisis, what crisis? |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography pages 297-308 |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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History -- Methodology.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Marwick, Arthur, 1936-2006.
Nature of history
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| ISBN |
0333964470 |
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033392262X paperback |
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