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A Global History of Modern Historiography

Offering a history of modern historiography from a global perspective, this study traces the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, and describes the processes by which history went from being a form of rhetoric, to the scientific pursuit of knowledge we know today.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 436 pages

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