What is History For?

An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance. Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this...

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Main Author Southgate, Beverley
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London ; New York Routledge 2005
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
History
History - Philosophy
History: Theory, Method & Historiography
Philosophy of Social Science
Shoreditch Town Hall
William Stubbs
Mary Fulbrook
Historiographic Metafiction
Conferred
Long Time Model
Greater Human Happiness
Benda’s Argument
Better Life
Follow
Final Solution
Make Up
Young Men
Sven Lindqvist
Hitler
Robert Rosenstone
Adolf Hitler
Victor Klemperer
Stubbs
Barren
Homo Duplex
Linguistic Awareness
Barry Smart
FRG
Post-war
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN9780415350990
0415350980
0415350999
9780415350983
DOI10.4324/9780203696668

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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Humanities and therapeutic education -- 2 History for its own sake -- 3 Professed purposes -- 4 Hidden agendas -- 5 Life and needs in postmodernity -- 6 History in postmodernity -- 7 Histories for postmodernity - some aspirations -- 8 Histories for postmodernity - some examples -- Afterword -- Further reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index