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Historical Knowledge, Historical Error - A Contemporary Guide to Practice (Paperback, New edition)
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Historical Knowledge, Historical Error - A Contemporary Guide to Practice (Paperback, New edition)
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In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of
their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and
perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and
sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation.
They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the
troubled relations between "the West" and the rest. Allan Megill
welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now
confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account
of the past. In "Historical Knowledge, Historical Error," Megill
dispels some of the confusion. Here, he discusses issues of
narrative, objectivity, and memory. He attacks what he sees as
irresponsible uses of evidence while accepting the art of
speculation, which incomplete evidence forces upon historians.
Along the way, he offers succinct accounts of the epistemological
road historians have traveled from Herodotus and Thucydides through
Leopold von Ranke and Alexis de Tocqueville, and on to Hayden
White, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Lynn Hunt.
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