Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice

by Jeremy M. Black and Jeremy Black

Book Overview

To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253016754
• ISBN13: 9780253016751
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher