"109" Result
Sort By:
"Deploying a range of key concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as si…
"Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of history. It is a detailed exploration of the practice of history, of historical traditions and of the theories that surround them. Discussing the development and growth of history as a discipline and of the profession of…
"The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, cha…
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this book, the author shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over…
A passion for history
by Davis, Natalie Zemon, Crouzet, Denis, Wolfe, Michael
fromEarly Modern Studies Series
0
Type: Book
In these conversations with Denis Crouzet, professor of history at the Sorbonne and well-known specialist on the French Wars of Religion, [renowned historian Natalie Zemon] Davis examines the practices of history and controversies in historical method. Their discussion reveals h…
For 2,500 years, since the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, historians have sought to record the truth about the past. Today, however, the discipline is suffering a potentially lethal attach from the rise to prominence of an array of French-inspired literary and social theories…
Re-figuring Hayden White
by Ankersmit, F. R., Domanska, Ewa, Kellner, Hans
fromCultural memory in the present
0
Type: Book
Re-figuring Hayden White
by Ankersmit, F. R., Domanska, Ewa, Kellner, Hans
fromCultural memory in the present
0
Type: Book
Re-Figuring Hayden White is a reconsideration of the work of Hayden White by a group of internationally prominent scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies.
