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Not by fact alone : essays on the writing and reading of history

Clive, John Leonard, 1924-1989
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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.
Imprint:
London : Collins-Harvill, 1989.
Collation:
xiv,334p. ; 22cm.
ISBN:
9780002720410
Dewey class:
907.2
Local class:
907.2
Language:
English
BRN:
333040
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