Artful History A Practical Anthology

Aaron Sachs, "Artful History: A Practical Anthology "
English | ISBN: 0300239904 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 1460 KB
A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfully

Is there any reason serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Even the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than a means of packaging research. This book gathers some of the most compelling efforts to make history writing eloquent, stirring, and memorable, demonstrating that even the most rigorous scholarship can take on a wide range of creative forms.
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