What Is History?
The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge January - March 1961. New York Times Book Review: "... a work of rare distinction which nobody can afford to miss."
The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge January - March 1961. New York Times Book Review: "... a work of rare distinction which nobody can afford to miss."
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780394703916 (039470391X)
Publish date: October 12th 1967
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 209
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Read For School,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Theory,
Society,
World History
Healthy and reasonable, with and eye towards future.
This book is not actually a book on history per se but rather an exploration of the discipline of history. This is the main reason that I consider it philosophy as it is not looking at a specific historical event, or looking at the history of civilisation but rather taking a step back and exp...