Overview
Using examples from antiquity to the present, this timely and relevant volume argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.
- | Author: Beverley C. Southgate
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 198 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0582423902
- | ISBN-13: 9780582423909
