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Metahistory: Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #57004 in Books
- Published on: 1975-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Metahistory is something more than a study of philosophies of history (although it is that too, and no doubt the most important work in the field since Collingwood): it is also a methodological manifesto, a more sustained argument for a deep-figural hermeneutic than has been worked out anywhere before now." -- Diacritics
"This is a daring, ingenious... tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original 'critique of historical reason.'." -- American Historical Review
"A book that will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative." -- Journal of Modern History
Customer Reviews
A must for any historian
Hayden White's Metahistory takes the reader deeply into the winding roads of history writing. From Hegel to Croce, he reviews and analizes the many different ways history was written in the nineteenth century and it's impact and influence in today's historiography. A must for any historian, but a little too deep - and perhaps boring- for those not familiar with history's theory and philosophy.
