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Author Wells, Colin, 1960-

Title A brief history of history : great historians and the epic quest to explain the past / Colin Wells.

Imprint Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, ©2008.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  907.2 W462b 2008    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 336 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index.
Contents The traveler's tale -- "A possession for always" -- "From the foundation of the city" -- Barbarians (and believers) at the gate -- Clio nods -- The wall of faith -- History reborn -- Point, counterpoint -- New worlds -- The challenge of reason -- Reason and imagination pass each other in the night -- Making it (sort of) in the enlightenment -- History goes to school and gets a job -- The last amateur -- History discovers art and culture -- Deep time -- Vast impersonal forces -- The return of the storyteller -- History comes of age.
Summary In this biography of history as a living idea, Colin Wells links together lively, evocative sketches of the great historians and summarizing their most important works. Readers learn how their ideas changed the understanding of history, how history itself moved forward over time, and why "history" is a startlingly fluid concept.
Subject Historiography.
Intellectual life -- History.
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781599211220
159921122X

 
    
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