The Historian's Craft

Marc Bloch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1992
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3643-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This work is, ostensibly, a simple introduction to historical method. However, it is more than that, being a personal essay which calls, in some of its sections, for a particular style of history. Bloch was the co-founder of the "Annales School" of historical writing.

Inhalt

Part 1 History, men and time: the choice of the historian; history and men; historical time; the idol of origins; the boundaries between past and present; understanding the present by the past; understanding the past by the present. Part 2 Historical observation: general characteristics of historical observation; evidence; the transmission of evidence. Part 3 historical criticism: an outline of the history of the critical method; in pursuit of fraud and error; towards a logic of the critical method. Part 4 Historical analysis: judging or understanding?; from the diversity of human functions to the unity of consciences; nomenclature. Part 5 Historical causation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.1992
• Übersetzer: Peter Putnam
• Vorwort: Peter Burke
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 138 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• ISBN-10: 0-7190-3643-7 / 0719036437
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-3643-9 / 9780719036439
• Zustand: Neuware