Herbert Butterfield and the interpretation of history /
Sewell, Keith C.
Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
Series appears only on bk jkt of published work.
"Works by Herbert Butterfield": p. 252-259.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-274) and index.
The romantic imagination -- Butterfield's critique of the Whig interpretation -- Butterfield's critique of Acton -- Machiavelli and the English tradition -- Expository historiography -- Providence -- Technical history -- Butterfield's critique of interpretations -- The three ways or levels of history -- The Wiles lectures -- Butterfield's critique of Namier -- Challenges and resolutions.
This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
Butterfield, Herbert, 1900-1979.
History
Historiography.