Donald Bloxham

Gebundenes Buch

Why History?

A History

Beschreibung

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different historians have conceived their activities, and to show the purposes that their work has served.

Autor

Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198858720
• ISBN-10: 0198858728
• Artikelnr.: 59645194