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2005eb
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0299214133
9780299214135
0299214109
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Historical evidence and argument /
[Book]
David Henige.
Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2005.
1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316) and index.
Declaiming the endtime -- Traveling hopefully -- The anxieties of ambiguity -- Unraveling gordian knots -- When too much is not enough -- The many births of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Destroying in order to save -- Speaking of history -- Sensing incongruity -- Poisoned chalices -- Scotching the myth-making machine -- Irreconcilable differences -- "We're changing everything ... again" -- Rule life vs. real life -- When might makes wrong -- Six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris -- Millions of moving parts -- He says, she says -- Bringing texts up to code -- Gaining and providing access -- Hearing a white horse coming.
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Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence," how do historians know what it means--and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty Historical Evidence and Argument. "Systematic doubt" is his watchword, and he practices what he preaches through a variety of insightful assessments of historical controversies--for example, over the dating of artifacts and the textual analysis of translated documents. Skepticism, Henige contends, forces us to recognize the limits of our knowledge, but is also a positive force that stimulates new scholarship to counter it.--Publisher description.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Historical evidence and argument.
History-- Methodology.
History-- Philosophy.
Histoire-- Méthodologie.
Histoire-- Philosophie.
HISTORY-- General.
History-- Methodology.
History-- Philosophy.
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