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Autore: |
Gaddis John Lewis
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Titolo: |
The landscape of history [[electronic resource] ] : how historians map the past / / John Lewis Gaddis
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina: | 901 |
907 | |
Soggetto topico: | History - Philosophy |
History - Methodology | |
Aesthetics - History | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The landscape of history ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-771419-6 |
1-280-75975-5 | |
0-19-536205-5 | |
1-4294-3109-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821679703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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