Title: The new nature of history : knowledge, evidence, language /
Authors: Marwick, Arthur, 1936-2006
Publisher: Palgrave,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Historiography.; History Philosophy
Contents: Introduction: the battle of basic assumptions -- History: essential knowledge about the past -- How the discipline of history evolved: from Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos -- How the discipline of history evolved: through the twentieth into the twenty-first century -- The historian at work: forget 'facts', foreground sources -- The historian at work: the communication of historical knowledge -- Theory, the science, the humanities -- Conclusion: crisis, what crisis?