TY - BOOK AU - Collingwood, R. G. TI - The idea of history: with lectures 1926-1928 SN - 9780199641291 U1 - 901 PY - 1994/// CY - Oxford ; New Delhi : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Historiography KW - History--Philosophy N1 - I. Greco-Roman historiography; II. The influence of Christianity; III. The threshold of scientific history; IV. Scientific history.; V. Epilegomena. N2 - The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. This important work examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers Collingwood's own view of what history is. This revised edition has a substantial new introduction which discusses how scholars have responded to Collingwood's classic over the last fifty years ER -