What is History?A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values. |
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I have no fear that my subject may , on closer inspection , seem trivial . I am afraid only that I may seem presumptuous to have broached a question so vast and so important . The nineteenth century was a great age for facts .
I have no fear that my subject may , on closer inspection , seem trivial . I am afraid only that I may seem presumptuous to have broached a question so vast and so important . The nineteenth century was a great age for facts .
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Thus it may very well happen that what seems for one group a period of decline may seem to another the birth of a new advance . Progress does not and cannot mean equal and simultaneous progress for all . It is significant that almost ...
Thus it may very well happen that what seems for one group a period of decline may seem to another the birth of a new advance . Progress does not and cannot mean equal and simultaneous progress for all . It is significant that almost ...
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This seems at first sight paradoxical ; for rarely has so much superficial talk been heard of changes going on around us . But the significant thing is that change is no longer thought of as achievement , as opportunity , as progress ...
This seems at first sight paradoxical ; for rarely has so much superficial talk been heard of changes going on around us . But the significant thing is that change is no longer thought of as achievement , as opportunity , as progress ...
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| Titel | What is History? George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The George Macaulay lectures, 1961 Trevelyan lectures |
| Autor/in | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Knopf, 1962 |
| Original von | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Jan. 2009 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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