@book{bibcite_8810,
  author = {Beverley C. Southgate},
  title = {History: What and Why?: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives},
  year = {2001},
  edition = {2},
  pages = {200 pp.},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address = {London, England},
  isbn = {9780415256575},
  note = {Contents:
Introduction : history, philosophy, and historiography -- Theory and the challenge of postmodernism -- Postmodernism and historical study -- Agenda -- What was history, the past as it was -- History and poetry -- History and science -- Conclusion: the past as it was -- Why history, past answers -- Interest and entertainment -- Moral teaching -- Religious teaching -- Politics and ideology -- Conclusion: chance, change, and empowerment -- External challenges to the old model : some interdisciplinary perspectives -- Psychology: problems of perception -- Linguistics: problems of language -- Philosophy: the problem of scepticism -- Internal challenges to the old model : some major forces -- Marxism -- Feminism -- Post-colonialism -- What and why, the future of history -- The postmodern predicament -- History as hypothesis -- The point as empowerment: affecting and effecting the future -- Postscript -- Pomophobia: the fear of postmodernism -- Holocaust-denial -- The future of the past.},
  language = {English},
}