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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe First Edition

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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 "appropriate" historical explanation should be.

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9780801817618
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978-0801817618
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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August 1, 1975
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English
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6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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464 pages
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Metahistory is something more than a study of philosophies of history (although it is that too, and no doubt the most important work in the field since Collingwood): it is also a methodological manifesto, a more sustained argument for a deep-figural hermeneutic than has been worked out anywhere before now.

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This is a daring, ingenious... tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original 'critique of historical reason.'.

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A book that will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0801817617
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; First Edition (August 1, 1975)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780801817618
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801817618
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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Paula Clarke

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Arrived on time and as described. Thank you.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2015

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This book is one of the most important for theoretical study of history as narrative, and leads to reader-response theory. Must have.

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Nachshon

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Hayden White is a "must read" to enable one to understand histories or to write histories.

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016

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The copy is in an excellent condition! Thank you!

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2008

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Depending on your familiarity with the study of history this book may be either over- or under-rated. It is fantastic text and highly informative. That said, a few cautionary notes:

This book has diminishing returns. I read the whole thing, but the book is rather formulaic. Spend more time on the Introduction than anything else. Without it you'll be lost.

Also I have little familiarity with the authors White discusses. With the ones I did know, Nietszche, Hegel, and Tocqueville, I found his commentary very interesting. But some familiarity with each author addressed would be worthwhile to enjoy it fully.

Hope it was useful. Whether or not you buy his argument, the work is definitely a modern classic.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015

Exactly as expected

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015

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A must for any historian

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 1998

Hayden White's Metahistory takes the reader deeply into the winding roads of history writing. From Hegel to Croce, he reviews and analizes the many different ways history was written in the nineteenth century and it's impact and influence in today's historiography. A must for any historian, but a little too deep - and perhaps boring- for those not familiar with history's theory and philosophy.

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内容をくみ取るだけならばともかく、完全に読み解こうとするとかなり手ごわい。まるでドイツ語の論文のように一つのセンテンスが長いので、集中して丁寧に読む必要があるが、歴史というものの（歴史記述）を理解するためには非常に良くまとめられている名著、二、三年前に翻訳出版の計画があるように聞いたが、一日も早い出版が望まれる。そうして自分の読み方と専門家の読み方を比較してみたい

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mathieu laine

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Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2015

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Verbose and dated. Well researched and well documented but in the end it will leave you saying "meh, so...?"

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