The science of history in Victorian Britain : making the past speak
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The science of history in Victorian Britain : making the past speak
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 12）
Pickering & Chatto, 2011
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: That Never-Ending Battle 1 The Enlarging Horizon: Henry Thomas Buckle's Science of History 2 The Sciences of History 3 Controversial Boys 4 Discipline and Disease
- or, the Boundary Work of Scientific History 5 History from Nowhere 6 Broad Shadows and Little Histories 7 The Death of the Historian Epilogue: Froude's Revenge
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