Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder

by Donald R. Kelley

Book Overview

In this book, one of the world's leading intellectual historians offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald R. Kelley focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism, theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075588
• ISBN13: 9780300075588
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"