Study of History (R.I.I.A.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: December 1954
ISBN-13: 9780192152169
First sentence: HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and the development in the last few centuries, and more particularly in the last few generations, of the would-be self-sufficient national sovereign state has led historians to choose nations as the normal fields of historical study.