The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak
Author:   Ian Hesketh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9781848931268


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

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Author:   Ian Hesketh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781848931268


ISBN 10:   1848931263
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: That Never-Ending Battle 1 The Enlarging Horizon: Henry Thomas Buckle's Science of History 2 The Sciences of History 3 Controversial Boys 4 Discipline and Disease; or, the Boundary Work of Scientific History 5 History from Nowhere 6 Broad Shadows and Little Histories 7 The Death of the Historian Epilogue: Froude's Revenge

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'It is certainly useful to have a study of an important conceptual debate that goes into the political wings so thoroughly' British Society for Literature and Science


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Ian Hesketh is associate professor of history at the University of Queensland. He is an intellectual historian and historian of science. He has written extensively on the history of evolution, the history of historical writing, the philosophy of history, and the history of religious thought.

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