Study of History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: April 1985
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780195196894
Subjects: History; History - General History
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.