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Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations 1st edition
Beverley C. Southgate
Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations 1st edition
Beverley C. Southgate
.Why Bother With History?argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire.Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.
200 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 27, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781138836839 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 408 g |
Language | English |
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