Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History

By Keith C. Sewell

Book Overview

This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403939284
• ISBN13: 9781403939289
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"