Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

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Synopsis
.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.
Copyright:
2001

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
200 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317875260
Related ISBNs:
9781315837901, 9781138836839, 9780582423909
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Routledge
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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