Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
The Critical Historian
1st Edition
By G Kitson Clark
April 05, 2018
Originally published in 1967, this book analyses the method by which historical evidence is built up and compares the nature of historical proof with that of other disciplines such as the law and natural sciences. It examines an extraordinary series of forgeries and distortions from the False ...
The Diversity of History: Essays in Honour of Sir Herbert Butterfield
1st Edition
Edited
By John Elliott, H G Koenigsberger
April 05, 2018
Each of the essays in this volume, originally published in 1970, touches upon a historical theme which Herbert Butterfield illuminated. It covers a wide range of topics from music and relgion in modern European history to the scientific revolution of the 17th century....
The Gateway to History
1st Edition
By Allan Nevins
April 05, 2018
In this book, originally published in 1962, one of America’s most distinguished historians defines the scope and variety fo his field and out lines his views on history’s objectives both as a science and as an art. The book provides insight into historians’ methods of interpreting and presenting ...
The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian View of History
1st Edition
By C. A. Patrides
April 05, 2018
This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history. The discussion ranges from the pre-Christian The Iliad up to the 1970s. The author considers subjects such as the Mystery Plays ...
The Historian At Work
1st Edition
By John Cannon
April 05, 2018
This volume, originally published in 1980 discusses the way in which distinguished historians such as Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, De Tocqueville, Marx, Maitland, Bloch, Namier, Wheeler, Butterfield and Braudel have regarded and tackled their discipline. As well as chapters by individual authors who ...
The Historian and the Climate of Opinion
1st Edition
By Robert Allen Skotheim
April 05, 2018
This volume of writings by outstanding twentieth-cnetury American historians presents one aspect of the problem which results from the conflict between the subjectivity of the historian and the objectivity of the past. It examines in particular the relationship between the historian and the climate...
The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding: Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
1st Edition
Edited
By Ray Allen Billington
April 05, 2018
This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by ...
The Learning of History
1st Edition
By D. G. Watts
April 05, 2018
Originally published in 1972, this book is a systematic analysis of the objectives and methods of history teaching. The book considers the criticisms of the 1960s and 70s of history as a subject and the pressures for its replacement in the school curriculum. It examines the complex psychological ...
The Origins of History
1st Edition
By Herbert Butterfield, J H Adam Watson
April 05, 2018
A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and ...
The Use of History
1st Edition
By A.L. Rowse
April 05, 2018
This book, originally published in 1963, discusses the place of history in education and general culture, methods of teaching and how to tackle reading. It deals with problems that are among the most pressing intellectual issues of the twentieth century as well as being a practical handbook, on how...
Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
1st Edition
By Timothy Hall
April 06, 2016
The greatest problem in historical scholarship, theoretically and practically, is the relation between historians and their subject matter. The past is gone and historians can only study its remnants. On what basis do scholars select certain facts from the mass of data left from the past? How do ...