This volume contains the text of the three Cook Lectures, delivered by Sir Geoffrey Elton at the University of Michigan in April 1990, which reviewed various current doubts and queries concerning the writing of reasonably unbiased history. The lectures offer critical advice on how such unbiased history might be achieved, together with a general critical survey of 'fashionable' theories on the writing of history. The Cook Lectures appear in print for the first time. Also included in the volume are reprinted versions of Sir Geoffrey's two Cambridge inaugural lectures, as Professor of Constitutional History, and as Regius Professor of Modern History. These tried to dispel, respectively, what Sir Geoffrey sees as the anti-historical fantasies current in the 1960s (but by no means yet gone), and the artificial attempt to denigrate the history of one's native country.
By:
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 217mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 207g ISBN:9780521524377 ISBN 10: 0521524377 Pages: 140 Publication Date:14 October 2002 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; 1. The Cook lectures; 2. The future of the past; 3. The history of England; Index.