The new nature of history : knowledge, evidence, language /

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Main Author: Marwick, Arthur, 1936-2006.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
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Table of 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?