Author: STONE, LAWRENCE.
Title: The Past and the Present.
Description: Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 0710006284. 1st ed. "The first three chapters trace three major developments in historiography: the relation of history to the social sciences, the use of the technique of group biography, and the recent(c.1981) reaction to quantification and the revival of narrative. In the second section..Stone explores some of the ideas advanced by the leading English, American and French historians for the transition from the traditional to the modern world, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries." Pp.12/274. Brown cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Stone Past Present History Historiography Narrative 49598 History: : World


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