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History: A Very Short Introduction
By John H. Arnold
148 pages
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- Oxford University Press
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Synopsis
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and ...
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work, giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not only the past, but also ourselves.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Contents ix
- Contents x
- Chapter 1 Questions About Murder and History 1
- Chapter 2 from the Tails of Dolphins to the Tower of Politics 15
- Chapter 3 'How It Really Was': Truth, Archives, and the Love of Old Things 34
- Chapter 5 Journeys of a Thousand Miles 78
- Chapter 6 the Killing of Cats; Or, is the Past a Foreign Country? 90
- Chapter 7 the Telling of Truth 106
- References 119
- Further Reading 123
- Index 127