How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science

by Martin L. Davies

Book Overview

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history's academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138296252
• ISBN13: 9781138296251
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"