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E. H. Carr.
What is History? the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961.

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 reprint (previously issued 1964; original edn. was 1961).
Series: Pelican Books.
ISBN 0140206523.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, Reading.
Size: 111x180x9mm.
Page count: 159pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are rather scuffed and creased; pages yellowed with age; the spine is scuffed but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £2.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 91g.

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No medieval emphasis. Contents: The historian & his facts; Society & the individual; History, science, & morality; Causation in history; History as progress; The widening horizon.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: pp
Index: yes


See also | Historiography |

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