History and International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics, 9)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 17, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415178655
First sentence: "The past," the great skeptic of British philosophy Michael Oakeshott once noted, is "a field in which we exercise our moral and political opinions, like whippets in a meadow on a Sunday afternoon" (Oakeshott 1962: 166).