Is History Fiction?

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2006
Author
Author: Ann Curthoys
Author: John Docker
Language
English
Number of Pages
296 pp.
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
City
Ann Arbor, MI
ISBN
9780472031542
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Herodotus and world history 
  • Thucydides 
  • Leopold von Ranke and Sir Walter Scott
  •  History, science and art 
  • Has history any meaning? 
  • History in the light of catastrophe 
  • The linguistic turn 
  • The feminist challenge 
  • Postmodernism and poststructuralism 
  • Anti-postmodernism and the Holocaust History wars
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