The new history and the old /

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Autore principale: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Natura: Libro
Lingua:Inglés
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.
Soggetti:
Sommario:
  • "History with the politics left out"
  • Clio and the new history
  • Two nations or five classes : the historian as sociologist
  • The "group" : British Marxist historians
  • Social history in retrospect. Reflections of a chastened father ; Recovering a lost world
  • Case studies in psychohistory. Edmund Burke : an ambivalent conservative ; James and John Stuart Mill : ambivalent rebels
  • Is national history obsolete? The Frenchness of France ; The Englishness of England
  • Who now reads Macaulay?
  • History and the idea of progress
  • Does history talk sense?