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The Pursuit of History Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

Paperback • 2021 • English • 7. edition

The Pursuit of History Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

By John Tosh

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This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism in recent years, history is a coherent discipline which still bears the imprint of its nineteenth-c...Show more

General and world history
European history
History: specific events and topics

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ISBN

9780367902469

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2021

Language

English

Edition

7

Original title

The Pursuit of History Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

Format

Paperback

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