What Is History Really About?: Reflections on Theory and Practicereflections on Theory and Practice

By Peter Burke

Book Overview

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions about the past or help them to answer old ones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912224127
• ISBN13: 9781912224128
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"