TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marwick,Arthur
AU  - 
TI  - The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language 
SN  - 9780333922620
U1  - 901 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - UK
PB  - Red Globe Press
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -