ENGLISH

Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society

By Martin L. Davies

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
9780415261654, 0415261651
LCC
D16.9 .D29 2006
Open Library ID
OL17879152M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5298272 bytes)
Pages
306\306
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

A book on history and theory which takes a fresh new look at the whole subject. It takes as its starting point historical ideas and thought about the past - rather than falling into the usual pattern of endlessly debating what history as a discipline does or should do. He doesn't take it for granted that history as a discipline has to exist at all - and looks at the influence and importance of historical ideas across the disciplines more generally. This is quite a complex argument, but the book is written very clearly and takes on real empirical questions as well as theoretical ones.

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