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In this collection of essays, the author demonstrates that while reading the great historians of the past, such as Gibbon, de Tocqueville, Carlyle, Macaulay, Michelet, Halevy, Marx and Burckhardt, is part of a complete education, history can also be great literature. Professor Clive's assumption is that history is an art, not a science and that the great historians have usually been supremely gifted writers as well as scholars. They have also often been prophets and sages, mediating general views of the world to their readers. The author has also written "Macaulay - The Shaping of the Historian" which won the National Book Award for History.
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Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. NOT BY FACT ALONE. Essays on the Writing and Reading of History. John Clive. Collins Harvill, London. 1989 First edition ISBN 0002720418 334pp Hardback. This copy is in fine condition in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. These essays explore the influence of personal preoccupation in shaping the historian's choice of subject and the role played by craft in writing history. Through examination of the historical writings of Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Burckhardt, Tocqueville, Marx, and Adams, Clive explores "the relationship between style and content . . . " in historical writing. He argues for "literary as well as substantive moulds." One seldom finds the results of serious scholarship printed as gracefully as they are in this worthwhile collection of essays on the art and craft of history writing. It is no surprise that Clive, author of a National Book Award-winning study of Macaulay ( Macaulay: The Shape of the Historian), is sympathetic to that master historian, but he is fair to all of his subjects (including the much-analyzed Carlyle). Ref Z2. N° de réf. du vendeur 008607
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