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“It recalls 20th century David Hume. The spirit and substance are almost unchanged: exceptional critical acumen, generosity of spirit.” Richard Shannon, Times Literary Supplement
“It is impossible to summarize the richness, depth, and originality of this book... One of the finest works in contemporary history.” John Clive, New York Review of Books
This truly original book, written in vivid language and phlegmatic English humor, immediately captivates the reader. It deals with the writing of history as a key to understanding human society and as an integral part of the cultural history of Europe and America. John Barrow convincingly brings to life the work of all historians, from the time of Herodotus and Thucydides to the present, explaining both their particular virtues and their obsessions, allowing the modern reader to understand how and why history is written the way it is.
It does not seek to be the history of an academic field, but the history of a continuous choice: the choice of the past and the different ways in which it has been delineated, investigated, presented, showcased, and sometimes even provided lessons, changing according to political, religious, cultural, and (more often) patriotic conditions. The book also aims to change our perceptions regarding the key turning points in the history of History. It dispels resilient myths, such as the idea that ancient historians only wrote contemporary history and had a completely cyclical view of time, that the 18th century lacked an understanding of the past, and that the critical study of sources began with Ranke in the 19th century.
The ideas that historians had about their time and culture emerge in an authentic and often unexpected way. Barrow convinces that a retrospective look at the history of History is one of the most interesting ways to understand the past. No work of comparable scale or ambition has been attempted in the Western world until now.
Manufacturer
- Author
- John Burrow
- Publisher
- Topos
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- World History, Science of History, History of Europe
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- Epics, chronicles, novels and investigations from Herodotus and Thucydides to the 20th century
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 576
- Release Date
- 5/2014
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 16x23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604990986
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