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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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them : it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor , and in what order or context . It was , I think , one of Pirandello's characters who said that a fact is like a sack - it ...
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them : it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor , and in what order or context . It was , I think , one of Pirandello's characters who said that a fact is like a sack - it ...
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On this point Professor Butterfield was categorical and severe : The study of the past with one eye , so to speak , upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history . . . . It is the essence of what we mean by the ...
On this point Professor Butterfield was categorical and severe : The study of the past with one eye , so to speak , upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history . . . . It is the essence of what we mean by the ...
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Nowadays , for reasons discussed in my last lecture , we no longer speak of historical “ laws ” ; and even the word “ cause ” has gone out of fashion , partly owing to certain philosophical ambiguities into which I need not enter ...
Nowadays , for reasons discussed in my last lecture , we no longer speak of historical “ laws ” ; and even the word “ cause ” has gone out of fashion , partly owing to certain philosophical ambiguities into which I need not enter ...
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THE HISTORIAN AND His Facts | 3 |
SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL | 36 |
HISTORY SCIENCE AND MORALITY | 70 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| 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 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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