Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities

by Peter Charles Hoffer

Book Overview

History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with its coordinate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479832839
• ISBN13: 9781479832835
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"