History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own
identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a
stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete
without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and
social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer
Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable
collaboration. Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with
its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social
sciences, literature, biography, policy studies, and law. As in
ancient days, when Clio was preeminent among the other eight muses,
so today, the author argues that history can and should claim pride
of place in the study of past human action and thought. Intimate
and irreverent at times, Clio among the Muses synthesizes a
remarkable array of information. Clear and concise in its review of
the companionship between history and its coordinate disciplines,
fair-minded in its assessment of the contributions of history to
other disciplines and these disciplines' contributions to history,
Clio among the Muses will capture the attention of everyone who
cares about the study of history. For as the author demonstrates,
the study of history is something unique, ennobling, and necessary.
One can live without religion, philosophy and the rest. One cannot
exist without history. Rigorously documented throughout, the book
offers a unique perspective on the craft of history. Peter Charles
Hoffer has taught history at Harvard, Ohio State, Notre Dame,
Brooklyn College, and the University of Georgia since 1968, and
specializes in historical methods, early American history, and
legal history. He has authored or co-authored over three dozen
books, and edited another twenty. Previous titles include The
Historian's Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time (NYU Press,
2008).
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