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Michael Bentley - The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield

History, Science and God

Av Michael Bentley

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Beskrivning
Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and Christianity and History (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western culture has undergone an astonishing revaluation over the past twenty years. What has been left out of this reappraisal is the man himself. Yet the force of Butterfield's writings is weakened without some knowledge of the man behind them: his temperament, contexts and personal torments. Previous authors have been unable to supply a rounded portrait for lack of available material, particularly a dearth of sources for the crucial period before the outbreak of war in 1939. Michael Bentley's original, startling 2011 biography draws on sources never seen before. They enable him to present a new Butterfield, one deeply troubled by self-doubt, driven by an urgent sexuality and plagued by an unending tension between history, science and God in a mind as hard and cynical as it was loving and charitable.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-04-21
  • Mått: 160 x 235 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 760 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 398
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107003972
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Michael Bentley is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and well-known internationally to scholars interested in the history of historical writing. His Companion to Historiography (1997) and popular short guide, Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1999) have become bench texts for courses in historiography. Recently awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Professor Bentley is currently writing a comparative analysis of Western historiography since the Enlightenment.

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Review of the hardback: 'An exceptional book … This is a very fine work of historical scholarship. If Cambridge University Press books are available in heaven (could it be heaven without them?) then Herbert Butterfield should feel vindicated, and deeply grateful for such a remarkable biographer.' Reform Magazine

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