In search of a meaningful past.
By: Edited by Arthur N. Gilbert.
Series: New perspectives in history
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: History -- Philosophy -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The historical crisis, by J. T. Marcus.; title: History and the search for identity, by P. Smith.; title: The role of history, by J. H. Plumb.; title: History as progress, by E. H. Carr.; title: On optimism, by P. Gay.; title: The purpose of history, by G. R. Elton.; title: The uses of history, by D. H. Fischer.; title: The dangers of history, by H. Butterfield.; title: Unity of history, by P. Smith.; title: History as private enterprise, by H. Zinn.; title: The historian and his day, by J. H. Hexter.; title: Present interest, by S. Kracauer.; title: On becoming an historian, by M. Duberman.; title: Vietnam analogy: Greece, not Munich, by A. J. Mayer.; title: Analogies, by D. H. Fischer.; title: The tragic element in modern international conflict, by H. Butterfield.