Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities
History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social sciences, literature, biography, policy studies, and law. As in ancient days, when Clio was preeminent among the other eight muses, so today, the a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-3283-5
- EAN: 9781479832835
- Produktnummer: 16672991
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 187 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 431 g
- Gewicht: 431
Über den Autor
Peter Charles Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He has authored and co-authored more than twenty books, including Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin and The Supreme Court: An Essential History.
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