History: A Very Short Introduction
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such ascausation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work, giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160637-3
- EAN: 9780191606373
- Produktnummer: 13928757
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'937 KB
- Abbildungen: black and white halftones and line drawings
Über den Autor
John H. Arnold is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in the medieval period and the philosophy of history. His publications include 'Nasty Histories: Medievalism and Horror' in History and Heritage: Consuming the Past in Contemporary Culture (ed. John Arnold, K. Davies, and S. Ditchfield).
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