A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century - Paperback
by John Burrow
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375727672ISBN-10:375727671UPC:9780375727672Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Historiography, Civilization, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.06 x 5.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCXC1MH8M2
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375727672ISBN-10:375727671UPC:9780375727672Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Historiography, Civilization, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.06 x 5.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCXC1MH8M2
John Burrow was for many years Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. From 1994 to 2000 he was the first Professor of Intellectual History at Oxford. He is author of A Liberal Descent, Gibbon, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought 1848-1914, and That Noble Sphere of Politics. He will be Distinguished...
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