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Author Hesketh, Ian, 1975-

Title The science of history in Victorian Britain : making the past speak / by Ian Hesketh.

Publication Info. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages).
Physical Medium monochrome
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Series Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 12
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index.
Contents The enlarging horizon : Henry Thomas Buckle's science of history -- The sciences of history -- Controversial boys -- Discipline and disease; or, The boundary work of scientific history -- History from nowhere -- Broad shadows and little histories -- The death of the historian -- Epilogue : Froude's revenge.
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Summary Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
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Subject Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Historiography.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject History -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
History -- Methodology -- 19th century.
History -- Methodology.
History -- Study and teaching.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Hesketh, Ian, 1975- Science of history in Victorian Britain. (DLC) 2012452133 (OCoLC)693810813
ISBN 1848931271 (electronic book)
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