Herbert Butterfield

Man on His Past

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures and illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521095679
• ISBN-10: 0521095670
• Artikelnr.: 26056939

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The history of historiography: 2. The rise of the German historical school
3. Lord Acton and the nineteenth-century historical movement
4. Ranke and the conception of 'general history'
5. The reconstruction of an historical episode: the history of the enquiry into the origins of the Seven Years War
6. Lord Acton and the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Appendices.