Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study

by G.R. Elton

Book Overview

This volume contains the text of the three Cook Lectures, delivered by Sir Geoffrey Elton at the University of Michigan in April 1990, which reviewed various current doubts and queries concerning the writing of reasonably unbiased history. The lectures offer critical advice on how such unbiased history might be achieved, together with a general critical survey of 'fashionable' theories on the writing of history. The Cook Lectures appear in print for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524377
• ISBN13: 9780521524377
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"