What Is History?
β Scribed by E. H. Carr; R. W. Davies
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 194
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Introductory Note
Preface to the Second Edition
1 The Historian and His Facts
2 Society and the Individual
3 History, SΓ‘ence> and Morality
4 Causation in History
5 History as Progress
6 The Widening Horizon
From E. H. Carrβs Files: Notes towards a Second Edition of What is History?
Notes
Index
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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Includes bibliographical references