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Publication

1985 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire, England

Language

English

Word Count

85,250 words, Guess

Page Count

341 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100521300835
  • ISBN-100521317428
  • ISBN-139780521300834
  • ISBN-139780521317429
  • Goodreads4168241', '4851725
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  • Library of Congress Control Number84021377
  • OCLC Control Number11210863
  • Better World Books9780521300834
  • Better World Books9780521317429
  • Better World BooksP8-BSK-403
  • Better World BooksW8-BHQ-303
  • Open LibraryOL2858698M

Classifications

  • DDC575.01/62/09
  • LCCQH361 .Y68 1985
  • LCCDA534

Description

"In this collection of closely interrelated essays, Robert Young emphasizes the scope of the nineteenth-century debate on 'man's place in nature' at the same time as he engages with the approaches of scholars who write about it. He is critical of the separation of the writing of history from writing about history, historiography, and of the separation of history from politics and ideology, then or now. Dr Young challenges fellow historians for reimposing the very disciplinary boundaries that the nineteenth-century debate showed were in the service of ideological forces in that culture. Rather, he proposes that the full weight of the contending forces should be made apparent and debated openly so that neither nineteenth-century nor contemporary issues about the role of science in culture should be treated in a narrow perspective"--Pub. website.

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