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What is history? /
"The author shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell us that only Caesar's crossing was significant. All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretative cho...
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex :
Penguin Books,
1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory note Preface to second edition 1. The historian and his facts 2. Society and the individual 3. History, Science and morality 4. Causation in history 5. History as a progress 6. The widening horizon From E. H. Carr's files: Note towards a second edition of What is history? by R. W. Davies Index