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This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a hos...

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Main Author: Sewell, Keith C. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Series:Studies in Modern History.
Subjects:
History.
European History.
Historiography and Method.
Modern History.
Historiography.
History, Modern.
Europe > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 280 pages)
ISBN:9780230000933
DOI:10.1057/9780230000933