The New Nature of History :
Marwick, Arthur, 1936-2006,
The New Nature of History : Knowledge, Evidence, Language / Arthur Marwick. - UK : Red Globe Press, 2001. - xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliography (pages 297-308) and index.
1. Introduction: the battle of basic assumptions -- 2. History: essential knowledge about the past -- 3. How the discipline of history evolved: from Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos -- 4. How the discipline of history evolved: through the twentieth into the twenty-first century -- 5. The historian at work: forget 'facts', foreground sources --
6. The historian at work: the communication of historical knowledge --
7. Theory, the science, the humanities --
8. Conclusion: crisis, what crisis?
Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this rewritten version of The Nature of History (1970) makes a forceful attack on post-modernism and argues for the importance to society of the study of the past.
9780333922620 9781137140906 (eBook)
History
History
Historiography.--Philosophy.--Methodology.
901 / MAR
The New Nature of History : Knowledge, Evidence, Language / Arthur Marwick. - UK : Red Globe Press, 2001. - xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliography (pages 297-308) and index.
1. Introduction: the battle of basic assumptions -- 2. History: essential knowledge about the past -- 3. How the discipline of history evolved: from Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos -- 4. How the discipline of history evolved: through the twentieth into the twenty-first century -- 5. The historian at work: forget 'facts', foreground sources --
6. The historian at work: the communication of historical knowledge --
7. Theory, the science, the humanities --
8. Conclusion: crisis, what crisis?
Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this rewritten version of The Nature of History (1970) makes a forceful attack on post-modernism and argues for the importance to society of the study of the past.
9780333922620 9781137140906 (eBook)
History
History
Historiography.--Philosophy.--Methodology.
901 / MAR