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" Historical evidence and argument / "
David Henige.
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BL
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948049
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b702419
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Henige, David P.
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| Title & Author
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Historical evidence and argument /\ David Henige.
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
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0299214133
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: 9780299214135
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0299214109
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9780299214104
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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History-- Methodology.
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History-- Philosophy.
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Histoire-- Méthodologie.
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Histoire-- Philosophie.
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HISTORY-- General.
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History-- Methodology.
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History-- Philosophy.
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901
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D16.H45 2005eb
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