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Routledge
156 Pages
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Routledge
156 Pages
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Routledge
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In Part 1 of this book, originally published in 1980, the focus is on certain claims of R. G. Collingwood regarding the nature of historical understanding, of Charles Beard about the possibility of an objective reconstruction of the past, and of J. W. N. Watkins concerning the reducibility of what historians say about social events and processes to what could have been said about relevant human... Read more
Part 1 1. R. G. Collingwood and the Understanding of Actions in History 2. Charles Beard and the Search for the Past as it Actually Was 3. J. W. N. Watkins and the Nature of the Historical Individual Part 2 4. A Controversy over Causes: A. J. P. Taylor and the Origins of the Second World War Part 3 5. A Vision of World History: Oswald Spengler andd the Life Cycle of Cultures
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William Dray
