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The historian between the ethnologist and the futurologist : A Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist, Venice, April 2-8, 1971 / Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist ‹1971›, Jerôme [Ed.] Dumoulin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Babylon. Studies in the behavioral sciences ; 13.
- New Babylon ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages).
- Edition:
- Reprint 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface / Bullock, Alan
- Editors' note
- Contents
- 1. Rules of the game and landscapes
- Our current sense of history / Gellner, Ernest
- Discussion
- 2. Futurology or projection of the present
- Prediction versus prophecy / Bell, Daniel
- 3. The historian and scientific economics
- The necessity and impossibility of political economy / Wiles, Peter
- 4. Illusions of temporal continuity
- History, sociology and revolutions / Nisbet, Robert
- 5. Political history in crisis
- On the position of political history within the social sciences / Mommsen, Wolfgang J.
- 6. In praise of history
- What is historical knowledge for us today? / Trevor-Roper, Hugh
- 7. New historical method
- History and primitive man / Furet, François
- The historian and the common man / Le Goff, Jacques
- History of systems of values / Duby, Georges
- Postface / Aron, Raymond
- Participants
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783111532431
- 3111532437
- OCLC:
- 1078911581
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