Sometimes an art : nine essays on history

The Resource Sometimes an art : nine essays on history
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Sometimes an art : nine essays on history
Title remainder
nine essays on history
Statement of responsibility
Bernard Bailyn
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data, with empathic imagination and the interweaving of strands of knowledge into a narrative which also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades--a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history"--From publisher's website
  • A collection of essays explores how the art of chronicling history requires weaving together strands of knowledge and drawing on imagination to describe the past without imposing modern standards on events
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
907.2
Index
index present
LC call number
D16.8
LC item number
.B285 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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