The landscape of history : how historians map the past

The landscape of history : how historians map the past / John Lewis Gaddis.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaddis, John Lewis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
History > Methodology.
Aesthetics > History.
HISTORY > General.
Aesthetics
History > Methodology
History > Philosophy
Geschichtsphilosophie
Geschichtswissenschaft
Methodologie
Geschiedwetenschap.
Methodologie.
Geschiedfilosofie.
Historisch besef.
History
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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.

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