Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Hayden White

464 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an a...

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