Key issues in historical theory /
An introduction to the field of historical theory, incorporating examples from novels, paintings, music and political debates and using text boxes to provide focus on key topics.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- What is historical theory?
- What is the past?
- Relations with the past
- The material relation : rooted in the past
- The aesthetic relation : historical narratives
- The political relation : making history
- The epistemic relation (I) : historical hypotheses
- The epistemic relation (II) : historical explanations
- The epistemic relation (III) : truth and plausibility
- The moral relation : lessons from the past
- Relations management : the ethics of historical scholarship.