This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.

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'...intensely relevant to reflection about the historical discipline and the humanities in general... It deftly handles the twists and turns in Butterfield's emerging overall conception' - Professor Harry Van Dyke, Redeemer University College, Ontario, Canada

Authors and Affiliations

Department of History, Dordt College, USA

Keith C. Sewell

About the author

KEITH SEWELL was born in London in 1944. Since 1969 he has lived in Australia or New Zealand. He has taught history for Deakin University and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Victoria, Australia. He moved to the USA in 1998 and is currently Professor of History at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. He is married with two sons.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History
Authors: Keith C. Sewell
Series Title: Studies in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000933
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3928-9Published: 13 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51978-1Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-00093-3Published: 13 January 2005
Series ISSN: 2946-2053
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: European History, Modern History, Historiography and Method

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