Towards a Better Understanding of History

Name: Towards a Better Understanding of History
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ISBN: 9780268002848

ISBN-10: 0268002843

ISBN-13: 9780268002848

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bernard Norling

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"History," writes Bernard Norling, "is not a series of unconnected episodes, all about equally important or equally useless, each embellished with a chapter title, and all then assembled in a book. It is a seamless garment, each part of which is related to all the others. It should be studied as such: studied with the object of understanding how civilizations change and why; how societies differ in many ways yet usually have to face the same kinds of problems; how innumerable ideas, events, and institutions from the past have made our present world what it is." In this eminently practical book, Professor Norling provides the beginning student of history with a basic orientation towards the…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 8/31/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 157
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Bernard Norling, professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Behind Japanese Lines and Lapham's Raiders.