1st Edition
Why Bother with History? Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations
By Beverley C. Southgate
Copyright 2000
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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. Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment... Read more
1. History for History's Sake. 2. History and Historical Examples. 3. History and Psychology. Identity: Memory and Forgetting; Meaning and Purpose. 4. History, Politics and Power. 5. History and Religion. 6. History and Education.
7. Postmodernism, History, and Values. 8. Postmodern History and the Future.
7. Postmodernism, History, and Values. 8. Postmodern History and the Future.
Biography
Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus, University of Hertfordshire. His many publications include History- What and Why? (1996).
