Metahistory: Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe

by Hayden V. White

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In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.
  • ISBN10 0801817617
  • ISBN13 9780801817618
  • Publish Date 1 August 1975 (first published 1 November 1973)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 28 November 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 464
  • Language English