In Defence of HistoryThis volume combines argument about the nature of history with case studies of how good history is written and researched. Richard Evans is the author of Death in Hamburg (winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History) and Rituals of Retribution. |
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Page 46
... nature of history has never arisen . 3 Modern philosophies of science , said Carr , argued plausibly that the natural scientist was anything but a neutral observer of autonomous processes in the laboratory . In his- tory and the social ...
... nature of history has never arisen . 3 Modern philosophies of science , said Carr , argued plausibly that the natural scientist was anything but a neutral observer of autonomous processes in the laboratory . In his- tory and the social ...
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... nature of history , another reason often given for supposing that history is not a science is the fact that historians ' conclusions cannot be experimentally replicated . But of course important aspects of a number of sciences are based ...
... nature of history , another reason often given for supposing that history is not a science is the fact that historians ' conclusions cannot be experimentally replicated . But of course important aspects of a number of sciences are based ...
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... nature of the resulting picture will depend partly on how many boxes still survive and have been tracked down , and this depends partly on having some idea of where to look ; but the picture's contours can still be filled in , even when ...
... nature of the resulting picture will depend partly on how many boxes still survive and have been tracked down , and this depends partly on having some idea of where to look ; but the picture's contours can still be filled in , even when ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The History of History | 15 |
History Science and Morality | 45 |
Copyright | |
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