Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucy

History

Burrow, John.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Penguin Uk

This unprecedented book by one of Britain’s most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has had in the Western world over the past 2,500 years. Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of Europe and America, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present, including Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Froissart, Clarendon, Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and Parkman. The author sets out not to give us the history of academic discipline but a history of choices: the choice of pasts, and the ways they have been demarcated, investigated, presented and even sometimes learned from as they have changed according to political, religious, cultural, and (often most important) partisan and patriotic circumstances. Burrow aims, as well, to change our perceptions of the crucial turning points in the history of history, allowing the ideas that historians have had about both their own times and their founding civilizations to emerge with unexpected freshness. Burrow argues that looking at the history of history is one of the most interesting ways we have to understand the past. Certainly, this volume stands alone in its ambition, scale and fascination.

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

KNOPF

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

Vintage

In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

Politics & Social Sciences

Collini, Stefan

Winch, Donald

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus

Allen Lane 2007-12-06

So much information on planning a new lawn or sprucing up an existing yard. Tips beginning with gardening tools, maintenance, lawn pests, insecticides, prying, transplanting and compost bins. Also, a directory of useful numbers all by radio personality and yard expert, John Burrow.

Your Front Yard

Science & Math

Technology

Swan Pub Co

How to successfully grow vegetables whether in the city or country. How to begin, determine the size, location, tools, test for drainage, soil preparation, fertilizer, compost drainage and what to plant. Along with all the vegetables from A to Z including herbs and when to harvest your fresh produce.

Vegetable Gardening: Spring & Fall

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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