Why Bother with History?

Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography
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Author: Beverley C. Southgate ISBN: 9781317875260
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 4, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Beverley C. Southgate
ISBN: 9781317875260
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 4, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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Why Bother With History?

argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire.

Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

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.

Why Bother With History?

argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire.

Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

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