The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language

Contents: Introduction: the battle of basic assumptions History: essential knowledge about the past How the discipline of history evolved: from Thucydides to Langlois and Seignobos How the discipline of history evolved: through the twentieth into the twenty-first century The historian at work: forget 'facts', foreground sources The historian at work: the communication of historical knowledge Theory, the sciences, the humanities Conclusion: crisis, what crisis?