Fifty key thinkers on history

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Fifty key thinkers on history

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

(Routledge key guides)

Routledge, 2000

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical reference and index

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ISBN 9780415169813

Description

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia; from Bede to Braudel; Marx to Michelet; Ranke to Rowbotham; Foucault to Fukuyama. Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information, a summary and discussion of the subjects approach to history and how others have engaged with it, a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites.

Table of Contents

Herodotus Thucydides Polybius Ssu-ma Ch'ien Livy Tacitus Gregory of Tours Bede Ibn Khaldun Froissart Vico Kant Gibbon Hegel Ranke Michelet Macaulay Marx Dilthey Turner Croce Woodson Febvre Spengler Bloch Geyl Collingwood Heidegger Toynbee Carr Oakeshott Braudel Hempel Taylor Moody Ricoeur Walsh Clark Hobsbawm Elton Kuhn Diop Thompson Foucault Davis White Ladurie Scott Rowbotham Fukuyama
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: pbk ISBN 9780415169820

Description

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia; from Bede to Braudel; Marx to Michelet; Ranke to Rowbotham; Foucault to Fukuyama. Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information, a summary and discussion of the subjects approach to history and how others have engaged with it, a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites.

Table of Contents

Herodotus Thucydides Polybius Ssu-ma Ch'ien Livy Tacitus Gregory of Tours Bede Ibn Khaldun Froissart Vico Kant Gibbon Hegel Ranke Michelet Macaulay Marx Dilthey Turner Croce Woodson Febvre Spengler Bloch Geyl Collingwood Heidegger Toynbee Carr Oakeshott Braudel Hempel Taylor Moody Ricoeur Walsh Clark Hobsbawm Elton Kuhn Diop Thompson Foucault Davis White Ladurie Scott Rowbotham Fukuyama

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  • NCID
    BA49033449
  • ISBN
    • 041516981X
    • 0415169828
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 363 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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