The Practice of History
by G. R. Elton
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The new edition of G. R. Elton's classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students and general readers of history. It makes a major contribution to the question "what is history?".Tags
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Competent guide to what political historians should do. This was a standard textbook for my introductory course. He was very much a document collector and political analyst.
Basic book in the use and practice of history.
Department of History, University of Hong Kong
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English historian Geoffrey Elton was born in Germany but educated at the University of London. In 1967 he became professor of constitutional history at Cambridge University. A scholar of Tudor administrative history, his studies have emphasized the development of modern governmental machinery, under the direction of Thomas Cromwell, as the central show more feature of the Tudor era. He has written many excellent works, a recent one being The English (1992). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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