Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History
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Description
This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
ISBN
9781403939289
Publication Date
2005
Department
History
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York, New York
Keywords
Herbert Butterfield, historiography
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Sewell, Keith C., "Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History" (2005). Books by Dordt Authors. 34.
https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/books/34
Comments
Table of Contents:
The romantic imagination --
Butterfield's critique of the Whig interpretation --
Butterfield's critique of Acton --
Machiavelli and the English tradition --
Expository historiography --
Providence --
Technical history --
Butterfield's critique of interpretations --
The three ways or levels of history --
The Wiles lectures --
Butterfield's critique of Namier --
Challenges and resolutions.