The landscape of history : how historians map the past /
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searchin...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The landscape of history
- 2. Time and space
- 3. Structure and process
- 4. The interdependency of variables
- 5. Chaos and complexity
- 6. Causation, contingency, and counterfactuals
- 7. Molecules with minds of their own
- 8. Seeing like a historian.