What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 |
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What had gone wrong was the belief in this untiring and unending accumulation
of hard facts as the foundation of history , the belief that facts speak for
themselves and that we cannot have too many facts , a belief at that time so
unquestioning ...
What had gone wrong was the belief in this untiring and unending accumulation
of hard facts as the foundation of history , the belief that facts speak for
themselves and that we cannot have too many facts , a belief at that time so
unquestioning ...
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While I do not wish to underestimate the force of the challenge of the past fifty
years to the belief in progress in the western world , I am still not convinced that
progress in history has come to an end . But , if you press me further on the
content of ...
While I do not wish to underestimate the force of the challenge of the past fifty
years to the belief in progress in the western world , I am still not convinced that
progress in history has come to an end . But , if you press me further on the
content of ...
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The transition has been made from laissez - faire to planning , from the
unconscious to the self - conscious , from belief in objective economic laws to
belief that man by his own action can be the master of his economic destiny .
Social policy ...
The transition has been made from laissez - faire to planning , from the
unconscious to the self - conscious , from belief in objective economic laws to
belief that man by his own action can be the master of his economic destiny .
Social policy ...
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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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Nutzerbericht - JonArnold - LibraryThingGoing back to re-read old university textbooks for fun must be a sign of incipient nostalgia for the lost days of youth. That or masochism. I didn’t get a nostalgic buzz (possibly as I was young and ... 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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