A discussion of the acerbic debate on whether historical writing can justly claim to recapture the truth about the past, or whether historians, whatever their claims, are the prisoners of their own time and the slaves of the language they can never fully control. The author offers a framework for evaluating the writing of historians, from the origins of historiography in the time of Herodotus to the postmodernists of today. The final chapter features interviews with two modern practitioners of history as they think out loud on what it means to be a historian today.
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Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
further reading, notes, references, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-340-67934-0 (9780340679340)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Defining history; from the birth of historiography to the Renaissance; from the Enlightenment of the 18th century to Von Ranke and the Rankean tradition; historiography from Marx to the Annales School; the value of history; historians on history.
