Beverley C. Southgate

Broschiertes Buch

Why Bother with History?

Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

Beschreibung

Using examples from antiquity to the present, this timely and relevant volume argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

Autor

Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus, University of Hertfordshire. His many publications include History- What and Why? (1996).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780582423909
• ISBN-10: 0582423902
• Artikelnr.: 21168824