Historical Evidence and Argument

Name: Historical Evidence and Argument
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ISBN: 9780299214104

ISBN-10: 0299214109

ISBN-13: 9780299214104

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Henige

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Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence," how do historians know what it means--and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty "Historical Evidence and Argument. "Systematic doubt" is his watchword, and he practices what he preaches through a variety of insightful assessments of historical controversies--for example, over the dating of artifacts and the textual analysis of translated documents. Skepticism, Henige contends, forces us to recognize the limits of our knowledge, but is also a positive force that…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 9/19/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Declaiming the endtime


Traveling hopefully


The anxieties of ambiguity


Unraveling Gordian knots


When too much is not enough


The many births of Frank Lloyd Wright


Destroying in order to save


Speaking of history


Sensing incongruity


Poisoned chalices


Scotching the myth-making machine


Irreconcilable differences


"We're changing everything ... again"


Rule life vs. real life


When might makes wrong


Six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris


Millions of moving parts


He says, she says


Bringing texts up to code


Gaining and providing access


Hearing a white horse coming