The New Nature of History : Knowledge, Evidence, Language / Arthur Marwick.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: UK : Red Globe Press, 2001.Description: xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780333922620
9781137140906 (eBook)

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901 21 MAR

Contents:

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?

Summary: 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.

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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.