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Geoffrey Hawthorn: Histories of Histories, 20 November 2008
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the 20th Century
by John Burrow.
Allen Lane, 553 pp., £25, December 2007,978 0 7139 9337 0 Show More
by John Burrow.
Allen Lane, 553 pp., £25, December 2007,
What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
by Anthony Grafton.
Cambridge, 319 pp., £13.99, March 2007,978 0 521 69714 9 Show More
by Anthony Grafton.
Cambridge, 319 pp., £13.99, March 2007,
The Theft of History
by Jack Goody.
Cambridge, 342 pp., £14.99, January 2007,978 0 521 69105 5 Show More
by Jack Goody.
Cambridge, 342 pp., £14.99, January 2007,
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History
by Darien Shanske.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £54, January 2007,978 0 521 86411 4 Show More
by Darien Shanske.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £54, January 2007,
“... temptation to find in Thucydides an alternative foundation for history itself. It is to this that Darien Shanske responds in Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History. Shanske reads Thucydides to be saying that it is with what the Greeks called logos, or reasoned speech, that men attempt to master events, and ... ”
