What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 |
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When we attempt to answer the question , What is History ? , our answer ,
consciously or unconsciously , reflects our own position in time , and forms part of
our answer to the broader question what view we take of the society in which we
live .
When we attempt to answer the question , What is History ? , our answer ,
consciously or unconsciously , reflects our own position in time , and forms part of
our answer to the broader question what view we take of the society in which we
live .
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They do not by themselves constitute history ; they provide in themselves no
ready - made answer to this tiresome question , What is History ? At this point I
should like to say a few words on the question why nineteenth - century
historians ...
They do not by themselves constitute history ; they provide in themselves no
ready - made answer to this tiresome question , What is History ? At this point I
should like to say a few words on the question why nineteenth - century
historians ...
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But the historian , in virtue of his urge to understand the past , is simultaneously
compelled , like the scientist , to simplify the multiplicity of his answers , to
subordinate one answer to another , and to introduce some order and unity into
the ...
But the historian , in virtue of his urge to understand the past , is simultaneously
compelled , like the scientist , to simplify the multiplicity of his answers , to
subordinate one answer to another , and to introduce some order and unity into
the ...
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Nutzerbericht - antiquary - LibraryThingIt puzzles me that Carr was taken so seriously as a "distinguished historian" in British academic circles, considering that he spent the first part of his career championing appeasement of Germany and much of the rest admiring Stalin. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
The Historian and His Facts | 1 |
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