Clio's Battles Historiography in Practice

Name: Clio's Battles Historiography in Practice
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ISBN: 9780253016874

ISBN-10: 0253016878

ISBN-13: 9780253016874

Edition: 2015

Authors: Jeremy Black

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To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit another, and on readings of the past that unite and those that divide. Black opens with an account that underscores the differences and developments in traditions of writing history from the ancient world to the present. Subsequent chapters…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2015
Pages: 342
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
Weight: 0.968
Language: English