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Why History?

A History - Print PDF.
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410 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am09.07.2020
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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-885872-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum09.07.2020
Seiten410 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht740 g
Artikel-Nr.56085252
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric2: History, Faith, Fortuna3: The 'Middle Age'4: Renaissances and Reformations5: Society, Nature, Emancipation6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis7: Turns to the Present8: Justifying History TodayBibliographymehr
Kritik
These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past. Alexandre Leskanich, TLSmehr

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.