Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
by:
Hayden White (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801817618 (0801817617)
Publish date: August 1st 1975
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Although virtually unreadable, this book is important. White says history is a verbal artifact that we use to “combine a certain amount of data, theoretical concepts for explaining these data, and a narrative structure for their presentation.” So understanding the tools available to us as storytel...