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- catalog contributor b198710.
- catalog contributor b198711.
- catalog created "1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1981.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [231]-244.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Preface -- I. The origins of historical writing: 1. Story telling -- 2. Lists and records -- 3. Disputes and wars -- 4. First interpretations -- II. The annals of the pre-classical empires: 1. Narratives of events -- 2. Ancient Egypt -- 3. The Hittite achievement -- 4. Mesopotamia -- III. The originality of the Hebrew scriptures: 1. The memory of the Exodus -- 2. God and history -- 3. The history of a nation -- 4. Promise and fulfilment -- 5. Exile and return -- 6. Israel's neighbours and their past -- IV. The rise of classical historiography: 1. The Greek attitude to history -- 2. The cyclical view of time -- 3. The Homeric memory -- 4. 'Scientific' history in Athena and Ionia -- V. The Chinese tradition of historical writing: 1. The origins of a unique achievement -- 2. The early classics -- 3. Confucius and after -- VI. The establishment of a Christian historiography: 1. The changed outlook of Judaism -- 2. Christian accounts of Jesus -- 3. The relation to the Old Testament -- 4. The establishment of a Christian interpretation of world history -- 5. The conversion of Constantine: Eusebius -- 6. Augustine -- VII. The development of historical criticism: 1. Pre-critical sceptics in Europe -- 2. The critical reconstruction of the past -- VIII. The great secularisation: 1. The hand of God -- 2. The mundane approach -- 3. The idea of progress -- 4. Philosophies of history -- Appendix: A Chinese historian -- Ssu-ma Ch'ien -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "252 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Origins of history.".
- catalog identifier "0413483703".
- catalog isFormatOf "Origins of history.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Eyre Methuen,".
- catalog relation "Origins of history.".
- catalog subject "D13 .B793".
- catalog subject "Historiography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Preface -- I. The origins of historical writing: 1. Story telling -- 2. Lists and records -- 3. Disputes and wars -- 4. First interpretations -- II. The annals of the pre-classical empires: 1. Narratives of events -- 2. Ancient Egypt -- 3. The Hittite achievement -- 4. Mesopotamia -- III. The originality of the Hebrew scriptures: 1. The memory of the Exodus -- 2. God and history -- 3. The history of a nation -- 4. Promise and fulfilment -- 5. Exile and return -- 6. Israel's neighbours and their past -- IV. The rise of classical historiography: 1. The Greek attitude to history -- 2. The cyclical view of time -- 3. The Homeric memory -- 4. 'Scientific' history in Athena and Ionia -- V. The Chinese tradition of historical writing: 1. The origins of a unique achievement -- 2. The early classics -- 3. Confucius and after -- VI. The establishment of a Christian historiography: 1. The changed outlook of Judaism -- 2. Christian accounts of Jesus -- 3. The relation to the Old Testament -- 4. The establishment of a Christian interpretation of world history -- 5. The conversion of Constantine: Eusebius -- 6. Augustine -- VII. The development of historical criticism: 1. Pre-critical sceptics in Europe -- 2. The critical reconstruction of the past -- VIII. The great secularisation: 1. The hand of God -- 2. The mundane approach -- 3. The idea of progress -- 4. Philosophies of history -- Appendix: A Chinese historian -- Ssu-ma Ch'ien -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "The origins of history / Herbert Butterfield ; edited with an introduction by Adam Watson.".
- catalog type "text".