What is History?Knopf, 1962 - 209 Seiten A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values. |
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... essay entitled Historical Inevitability - to the main thesis of which I shall return later in these lectures - he headed it with a motto culled from the works of Mr. T. S. Eliot " Vast impersonal forces " ; and throughout the essay he ...
... essay entitled Historical Inevitability - to the main thesis of which I shall return later in these lectures - he headed it with a motto culled from the works of Mr. T. S. Eliot " Vast impersonal forces " ; and throughout the essay he ...
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... essay telling us what those lessons were . Two of them have remained in my memory . One was that it was dangerous , when re - drawing the map of Europe , to neglect the principle of self - determination . The other was that it was ...
... essay telling us what those lessons were . Two of them have remained in my memory . One was that it was dangerous , when re - drawing the map of Europe , to neglect the principle of self - determination . The other was that it was ...
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... essay already quoted insists with great vehemence that it is the duty of the historian " to judge Charlemagne or Napoleon or Genghis Khan or Hitler or Stalin for their massacres . " This view has 8 ' Acton : Historical Essays and ...
... essay already quoted insists with great vehemence that it is the duty of the historian " to judge Charlemagne or Napoleon or Genghis Khan or Hitler or Stalin for their massacres . " This view has 8 ' Acton : Historical Essays and ...
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