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Dictionary of Concepts in History (Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities) - Hardcover

Ritter, Harry

 
9780313227004: Dictionary of Concepts in History (Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities)

Synopsis

"In this book I survey some of the existing literature and attempt to identify and discuss some of the key concepts of contemporary historical analysis.…entries in this dictionary summarize not only the thought of professional historians but some work in the field of philosophy of history as well."
-- from the Preface

Dictionaries in the Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities series uniformly present brief, substantive discussions of the etymological development and contemporary use of the significant concepts in a discipline or subdiscipline. Another feature that distinguishes these dictionaries from others in the field is their emphasis upon bibliographic information.

Some examples of entries in this dictionary:

Causation
Covering Laws
Cultural History
Determinism
Econometric History
Evidence
Fact
Feudalism
Ideology
Interpretation
Liberalism
Nation
Objectivity
Progress
Race
Relativism
Socialism
Universal History

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