Why Bother with History?

出版者:Routledge

作者:Beverley C. Southgate

页数:198

出版时间:2000-11-28

价格:GBP 35.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780582423909

.Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.