Use and Abuse of History

by Pieter Geyl

Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since it deals with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principles. "The most we can hope for," he states, "is a partial rendering, an approximation, of the real truth about the past." In this succinct analysis of the philosophy and method of history, Professor Geyl...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030013651X
• ISBN13: 9780300136517
• Release Date: September 1955
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"