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Why History? A History

Bloxham Donald
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198858720
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
740 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
410

Forfatter
Bloxham Donald

Biographical note

Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

Why History? A History

Bloxham Donald
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These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past.

Alexandre Leskanich, TLS

Bloxham's study is outstanding in its grasp of two and a half millennia of historiography, and he traces his subject through time and space seemingly effortlessly.

Konrad Hauber, German Historical Institute London Bulletin

On the whole, Why History? is a marvel of both clarity and erudition...the footnotes and bibliography...are treasure troves and I found myself repeatedly stopping to take note of an essay or monograph I'd not run across.

Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served. Whether considering Herodotus, medieval religious exegesis, or twentieth-century cultural history, at the core of this work is the way that the present has been conceived to relate to the past. Alongside many changes in technique and philosophy, Donald Bloxham's book reveals striking long-term continuities in justifications for the discipline.
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What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different historians have conceived their activities, and to show the purposes that their work has served.
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Introduction 1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric 2: History, Faith, Fortuna 3: The 'Middle Age' 4: Renaissances and Reformations 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis 7: Turns to the Present 8: Justifying History Today Bibliography
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Provides the most comprehensive study of the question 'why do we study the past?' by examining the way in which historians and many others have answered that question over the last two and a half millennia Allows a reconsideration of the development of the historical discipline over the long term, recasting many familiar historiographical debates in new terms Goes well beyond looking at the attitudes of individual historians and historical schools to set the development of the discipline into the context of intellectual, cultural, and political changes
Les mer
Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
Les mer
Provides the most comprehensive study of the question 'why do we study the past?' by examining the way in which historians and many others have answered that question over the last two and a half millennia Allows a reconsideration of the development of the historical discipline over the long term, recasting many familiar historiographical debates in new terms Goes well beyond looking at the attitudes of individual historians and historical schools to set the development of the discipline into the context of intellectual, cultural, and political changes
Les mer

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These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past.

Alexandre Leskanich, TLS

Bloxham's study is outstanding in its grasp of two and a half millennia of historiography, and he traces his subject through time and space seemingly effortlessly.

Konrad Hauber, German Historical Institute London Bulletin

On the whole, Why History? is a marvel of both clarity and erudition...the footnotes and bibliography...are treasure troves and I found myself repeatedly stopping to take note of an essay or monograph I'd not run across.

Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served. Whether considering Herodotus, medieval religious exegesis, or twentieth-century cultural history, at the core of this work is the way that the present has been conceived to relate to the past. Alongside many changes in technique and philosophy, Donald Bloxham's book reveals striking long-term continuities in justifications for the discipline.
Les mer
What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different historians have conceived their activities, and to show the purposes that their work has served.
Les mer
Introduction 1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric 2: History, Faith, Fortuna 3: The 'Middle Age' 4: Renaissances and Reformations 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis 7: Turns to the Present 8: Justifying History Today Bibliography
Les mer
Provides the most comprehensive study of the question 'why do we study the past?' by examining the way in which historians and many others have answered that question over the last two and a half millennia Allows a reconsideration of the development of the historical discipline over the long term, recasting many familiar historiographical debates in new terms Goes well beyond looking at the attitudes of individual historians and historical schools to set the development of the discipline into the context of intellectual, cultural, and political changes
Les mer
Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
Les mer
Provides the most comprehensive study of the question 'why do we study the past?' by examining the way in which historians and many others have answered that question over the last two and a half millennia Allows a reconsideration of the development of the historical discipline over the long term, recasting many familiar historiographical debates in new terms Goes well beyond looking at the attitudes of individual historians and historical schools to set the development of the discipline into the context of intellectual, cultural, and political changes
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198858720
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
740 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
410

Forfatter
Bloxham Donald

Biographical note

Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

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