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This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of ...Show synopsisThis unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history of Europe and America.It magnificently brings to life the work of historians from the Greeks to the present, including Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Froissart, Clarendon, Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and Parkman, explaining their distinctive qualities and allowing the modern reader to appreciate and enjoy them. But is also examines subjects as diverse as the new perspectives brought about by the rise of Rome, the interests of medieval chroniclers, the introduction into historical narratives of what the eighteenth century called 'sentiment', the effects of Romanticism and the emergence towards the end of the nineteenth century of an historical profession.It sets out to be not the history of an academic discipline, but a history of choice: the choice of pasts, and the ways they have been demarcated, investigated, presented and even sometimes learned from as they have changed according to political, religious, cultural and (often most importantly) patriotic circumstances. This book also aims to change our perceptions of the main turning points in the history of history. It dispels persistent myths, such as that the ancient historians wrote only contemporary history and had a purely cyclical view of time, that the eighteenth century lacked understanding of the past and that the critical study of sources began only with Ranke in the nineteenth century. The ideas that historians have had about both their own times and their civilization emerge freshly and often unexpectedly. Burrow argues that looking at the history of history is one of the most interesting ways we can try to understand the past. Nothing on the scale of or with the ambition of his book has yet been attempted in English.Hide synopsis
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century – Trade paperback
(2009)
by John Burrow
Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 0375727671
ISBN-13: 9780375727672
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century – Hardcover
(2008)
by John Burrow
Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0375413111
ISBN-13: 9780375413117
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century – Mass-market paperback
(2009)
by John Burrow
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Title: A History of Histories Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries From Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century Author:John Burrow ISBN-13:9780375413117 ISBN:0375413111
Title: A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries From Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century Author:John Burrow ISBN-13:9780375413117 ISBN:0375413111
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John Burrow?s A History of Histories is a survey of the western tradition of historical writing from Herodotus and Thucydides to the present.
The work is a 500 page survey of dozens of historians writing in different periods in Europe and North America. As far as I could tell the historians represented ...
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