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Why History?

A History
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
416 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am26.10.2022
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.mehr
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KlappentextWhat 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-285566-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum26.10.2022
Seiten416 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 232 mm, Dicke 21 mm
Gewicht608 g
Artikel-Nr.59009170
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction

1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric

2: History, Faith, Fortuna

3: The 'Middle Age'

4: Renaissances and Reformations

5: Society, Nature, Emancipation

6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis

7: Turns to the Present

8: Justifying History Today

Bibliography

Indexmehr

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.