Oscar Handlin

Truth in History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Like scholars in other fields, historians have long occupied themselves in self-justification

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781138539952
• ISBN-10: 1138539953
• Artikelnr.: 57045578

Autorenporträt

Oscar Handlin

Inhaltsangabe

Personal Reflections on a Calling
1 A Discipline in Crisis
2 Living in a Valley
The Central Themes of American History
3 A History of American History
4 Theories of Historical Interpretation
5 Historical Criticism
6 An Instance of Criticism
Dealing with the Evidence
7 How to Read a Word
8 How to Count a Number
9 Seeing and Hearing
10 History in a World of Knowledge
Persistent Themes and Hard Facts
11 Political Theory and Popular Thought
12 Man and Magic
13 Good Guys and Bad
14 The Two-Party System
The Uses of History
15 The Diet of a Ravenous Public
16 Ethnicity and the New History
17 The Uses of History