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Marwick Arthur

The new nature of history : Knowledge, evidence, language - Chicago Lyceum Books 2001 - 334p xvi

Table of contents
Preface;
Introduction:
The Battle of Basic Assumptions;
History: Essential Knowledge about the Past;
How the Discipline of History Evolved: From Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos;
How the Discipline of History Evolved through the Twentieth into the Twenty-first Century;
The Historian at Work: Forget 'Facts', Foreground Sources;
The Historian at Work: The Communication of Historical Knowledge;
Theory, the Sciences, the Humanities.- Conclusion: Crisis, What Crisis;
Appendix A: An Example of Learning Outcomes for a History Degree;
Appendix B: Examples of Aims and Objectives;
Appendix C: Writing History;
Appendix D: Glossary;
Further Reading;
Index.

ISBN: 9780333922620

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Historiography2. History - Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 954.000000 / MAR