http://www.landoflime.com/archives/mythos/a-minister-for-history/ Haunting Pasts, Uncertain Present, Utopian Futures Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:44:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.landoflime.com/archives/mythos/a-minister-for-history/#comment-513 History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold — Archaeoastronomy Archive Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:18:02 +0000 http://www.landoflime.com/archives/mythos/a-minister-for-history/#comment-513 [...] Like many of the VSIs the book is a joy to read. It’s accessible but not shallow. Theory of History has the potential to be a mind-numbingly dull subject, but in this book John Arnold shows how having an idea of what you’re doing, and why, can make a historical story more interesting and add more depth by suggesting questions that might not otherwise occur to you. It doesn’t eliminate story of narrative from History but offers a scaffold on which to build a stronger narrative. [...] [...] Like many of the VSIs the book is a joy to read. It’s accessible but not shallow. Theory of History has the potential to be a mind-numbingly dull subject, but in this book John Arnold shows how having an idea of what you’re doing, and why, can make a historical story more interesting and add more depth by suggesting questions that might not otherwise occur to you. It doesn’t eliminate story of narrative from History but offers a scaffold on which to build a stronger narrative. [...]

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