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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450949403321

Autore

Gaddis John Lewis

Titolo

The landscape of history [[electronic resource] ] : how historians map the past / / John Lewis Gaddis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-280-75975-5

0-19-536205-5

1-4294-3109-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

901

907

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

History - Methodology

Aesthetics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; ONE: The Landscape of History; TWO: Time and Space; THREE: Structure and Process; FOUR: The Interdependency of Variables; FIVE: Chaos and Complexity; SIX: Causation, Contingency, and Counterfactuals; SEVEN: Molecules with Minds of Their Own; EIGHT: Seeing Like a Historian; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? John Lewis Gaddis answers these and other questions in this short text, providing a searching look at the historian's craft.