"The Student's Companion to History" guides students through all the historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history. It distinguishes between history as action and history as narrative and attempts to illuminate the interplay between understanding and doing. The author covers the nature of history, questions about action and meaning, views of the past, history as discourse, narrative and knowledge, the use of evidence, causation and event, theories of history and also a wide variety of recent theoretical perspectives and schools of thought.
- ISBN10 063118158X
- ISBN13 9780631181583
- Publish Date 3 June 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English