Fact and Relevance: Essays on Historical Method - Rilegato

Postan, M. M.

 
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A collection of fourteen essays in which Professor Postan draws together for the first time his contributions to the debate on historical method.

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Descrizione del libro

A collection of fourteen essays in which Professor Postan draws together for the first time his contributions to the debate on historical method, and discusses from a variety of different angles, the inter-relation of history and the social sciences.

Contenuti

1. Reason in social study; 2. History and the social sciences; 3. The historical method in social science; 4. Function and dialectic in economic history; 5. Fact and relevance in historical study; 6. Economic and social history; 7. Economic growth; 8. A plague of economists?; 9. The uses and abuses of economics; 10. Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history; 11. Technological progress in post-war Europe; 12. A study of history; 13. Karl Marx: a democrat?; 14. Hugh Gaitskell: political and intellectual progress.

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9780521077583: Fact and Relevance: Essays on Historical Method

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ISBN 10:  0521077583 ISBN 13:  9780521077583
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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