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Historical evidence and argument /
Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence," how do historians know what it means--and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Declaiming the endtime
- Traveling hopefully
- The anxieties of ambiguity
- Unraveling gordian knots
- When too much is not enough
- The many births of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Destroying in order to save
- Speaking of history
- Sensing incongruity
- Poisoned chalices
- Scotching the myth-making machine
- Irreconcilable differences
- "We're changing everything ... again"
- Rule life vs. real life
- When might makes wrong
- Six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris
- Millions of moving parts
- He says, she says
- Bringing texts up to code
- Gaining and providing access
- Hearing a white horse coming.