ARTHUR MARWICK is Professor of History at the Open University. His many books include British Society since 1945 (3rd edition 1996), The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France Italy and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 (1998) and A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events, Outcomes (2000).

'...passionate rebuttal of postmodernist criticisms of the mainstream positivist movement in hisorical science...' - International Review of Social History

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Battle of Basic AssumptionsHistory: Essential Knowledge about the PastHow the Discipline of History Evolved: From Thucydides to Langlois and SeignobosHow the Discipline of History Evolved through the Twentieth into the Twenty-first CenturyThe Historian at Work: Forget 'Facts', Foreground SourcesThe Historian at Work: The Communication of Historical KnowledgeTheory, the Sciences, the HumanitiesConclusion: Crisis, What Crisis?Appendix A: An Example of Learning Outcomes for a History DegreeAppendix B: Examples of Aims and ObjectivesAppendix C: Writing HistoryAppendix D: GlossaryFurther ReadingIndex.

ARTHUR MARWICK is Professor of History at the Open University. His many books include British Society since 1945 (3rd edition 1996), The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France Italy and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 (1998) and A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events, Outcomes (2000).

'...passionate rebuttal of postmodernist criticisms of the mainstream positivist movement in hisorical science...' - International Review of Social History

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Battle of Basic AssumptionsHistory: Essential Knowledge about the PastHow the Discipline of History Evolved: From Thucydides to Langlois and SeignobosHow the Discipline of History Evolved through the Twentieth into the Twenty-first CenturyThe Historian at Work: Forget 'Facts', Foreground SourcesThe Historian at Work: The Communication of Historical KnowledgeTheory, the Sciences, the HumanitiesConclusion: Crisis, What Crisis?Appendix A: An Example of Learning Outcomes for a History DegreeAppendix B: Examples of Aims and ObjectivesAppendix C: Writing HistoryAppendix D: GlossaryFurther ReadingIndex.

ARTHUR MARWICK is Professor of History at the Open University. His many books include British Society since 1945 (3rd edition 1996), The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France Italy and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 (1998) and A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events, Outcomes (2000).

'...passionate rebuttal of postmodernist criticisms of the mainstream positivist movement in hisorical science...' - International Review of Social History

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Battle of Basic AssumptionsHistory: Essential Knowledge about the PastHow the Discipline of History Evolved: From Thucydides to Langlois and SeignobosHow the Discipline of History Evolved through the Twentieth into the Twenty-first CenturyThe Historian at Work: Forget 'Facts', Foreground SourcesThe Historian at Work: The Communication of Historical KnowledgeTheory, the Sciences, the HumanitiesConclusion: Crisis, What Crisis?Appendix A: An Example of Learning Outcomes for a History DegreeAppendix B: Examples of Aims and ObjectivesAppendix C: Writing HistoryAppendix D: GlossaryFurther ReadingIndex.