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Author Gorman, J. L. (Jonathan L.), 1946-

Title Understanding history : an introduction to analytical philosophy of history / Jonathan Gorman.

Publication Info. Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 121 pages).
Series Philosophica ; no. 42
Collection Philosophica ; 42.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-121).
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Contents Preface; CHAPTER 1 History: Practice and Theory; CHAPTER 2 Knowledge; CHAPTER 3 Reality; CHAPTER 4 Traditional History; CHAPTER 5 Rational Economic Man; CHAPTER 6 Economic Reality; CHAPTER 7 Conclusion; Bibliography and Further Reading.
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Summary Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to gather and communicate genuine knowledge about the past. Understanding History applies this general question from the philosophy of history to economic history of American slaveholders. Do we understand the American slaveholders? Has the last word on the subject been said? Both the alleged "profitabili.
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Subject History -- Philosophy.
Historiography.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
History -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00958266
Geschiedfilosofie.
Analytische filosofie.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gorman, J.L. (Jonathan L.), 1946- Understanding history. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1992 (DLC) 92090193
ISBN 9780776617374 (electronic bk.)
0776617370 (electronic bk.)
0776603558
9780776603551
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