Not by Fact Alone
Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
John Clive(Author)
The Harvill Press
Published on 19. October 1989
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-00-272041-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays, the author demonstrates that while reading the great historians of the past, such as Gibbon, de Tocqueville, Carlyle, Macaulay, Michelet, Halevy, Marx and Burckhardt, is part of a complete education, history can also be great literature. Professor Clive's assumption is that history is an art, not a science and that the great historians have usually been supremely gifted writers as well as scholars. They have also often been prophets and sages, mediating general views of the world to their readers. The author has also written "Macaulay - The Shaping of the Historian" which won the National Book Award for History.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-272041-0 (9780002720410)
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