Geography and History
Subtitle: Bridging the Divide (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521246835
Subjects: Historical geography; Social history; World - General; History; Science; History: World; Atlases - Historical; Earth Sciences - Geography; Science / Geography
First sentence: Richard Evans, in his powerful 'defence' of his history against its attack by postmodernism, claims that the 1960s saw 'the invasion of the social sciences into history in Britain' and that in the post-war years in France the Annales historians aimed to make history far more objective and scientific than ever before by 'incorporating the methods of economics, sociology and especially geography into their approach to the past' (Evans 1997: 38-9).