Historical imagination /
This book examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. Supporting theory with relatable examples,...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Imagination in history
- Imagination in the archives
- Insertions
- The modal mood in historical writing
- The historian's fancy
- What if?