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The modern historian enjoys none of the advantages of this built - in ignorance .
... He has the dual task of discovering the few significant facts and turning them
into facts of history , and of discarding the many insignificant facts as unhistorical .
The modern historian enjoys none of the advantages of this built - in ignorance .
... He has the dual task of discovering the few significant facts and turning them
into facts of history , and of discarding the many insignificant facts as unhistorical .
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ment , who were the founders of modern historiography , retained the Jewish -
Christian teleological view , but secularized the goal ; they were thus enabled to
restore the rational character of the historical process itself . History became ...
ment , who were the founders of modern historiography , retained the Jewish -
Christian teleological view , but secularized the goal ; they were thus enabled to
restore the rational character of the historical process itself . History became ...
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But to treat it as the centre - piece of universal history , and everything else as
peripheral to it , is an unhappy distortion of perspective . It is the duty of a
university to correct such popular distortions . The school of modern history in this
...
But to treat it as the centre - piece of universal history , and everything else as
peripheral to it , is an unhappy distortion of perspective . It is the duty of a
university to correct such popular distortions . The school of modern history in this
...
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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
The Historian and His Facts | 1 |
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| Titel | What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 @Trevelyan lectures given at the University of Cambridge George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The Trevelyan lectures |
| Autoren | Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies |
| Herausgeber | Robert William Davies |
| Ausgabe | 2, illustriert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 1986 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 5. Juni 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333389565, 9780333389560 |
| Länge | 154 Seiten |
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