Fact and Relevance

Essays on Historical Method

M. M. Postan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-07758-3 (ISBN)

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A collection of fourteen essays in which Professor Postan draws together for the first time his contributions to the debate on historical method, and discusses from a variety of different angles, the inter-relation of history and the social sciences. After making, in his first three essays, a direct statement of his point of view, the author deals with two main aspects of the subject: time sequences and theoretical relevance of facts. He then proceeds to exemplify his point of view more particularly with relation to macro-economics and to certain specific issues within economic history as well as to economic history in general. In the final two chapters, one is on Karl Marx, the other on Hugh Gaitskell, he seeks to describe the intellectual climate in which the debate on methodology was held and in which his opinions on the subject were formed. The essays contained in this book will be of interest to all those involved in the social sciences, economics and history, as well as to those specifically concerned with historical methodology.

1. Reason in social study; 2. History and the social sciences; 3. The historical method in social science; 4. Function and dialectic in economic history; 5. Fact and relevance in historical study; 6. Economic and social history; 7. Economic growth; 8. A plague of economists?; 9. The uses and abuses of economics; 10. Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history; 11. Technological progress in post-war Europe; 12. A study of history; 13. Karl Marx: a democrat?; 14. Hugh Gaitskell: political and intellectual progress.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.9.2008
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	144 x 224 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
ISBN-10	0-521-07758-3 / 0521077583
ISBN-13	978-0-521-07758-3 / 9780521077583
Zustand	Neuware