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"The Student's Companion to History" guides students through all the historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history. It distinguishes between history as action and history as narrative and attempts to illuminate the interplay between understanding and doing. The author covers the nature of history, questions about action and meaning, views of the past, history as discourse, narrative and knowledge, the use of evidence, causation and event, theories of history and also a wide variety of recent theoretical perspectives and schools of thought.

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CONTENTS
Introduction = 1
 Historiography = 5
 Gender and History = 7
 Use of this Book = 8
1. History as Unity = 10
 Introduction = 10
 A. Experience - or the Concern of History = 11
 B. Time and Change - or the Essence of History = 15
 C. Cumulation - or the Sum of History = 17
 D. Process - or the March of History = 18
 Conclusion = 21
 Suggested Reading = 21
2. History as Action = 22
 Introduction = 22
 A. The Analysis of Action = 23
 B. Contexts and Consequences of Action = 27
 C. Uses and Abuses of History = 36
 Conclusion = 47
 Suggested Reading = 48
3. History as Outlook = 49
 Introduction = 49
 A. Personal Attitudes to History = 50
 B. Public Attitudes to History = 53
 C. History and the Social Sciences = 63
 Conclusion = 78
 Suggested Reading = 78
4. History as Discourse = 79
 Introduction = 79
 A. Communication = 80
 B. Narrative = 87
 C. Non-narrative History = 102
 D. Other Relevant Topics = 106
 Conclusion = 107
 Suggested Reading = 108
5. History as Knowledge = 109
 Introduction = 109
 A. What is Historical Knowledge? = 110
 B. Construction or Reconstruction? = 119
 C. Fact, Truth and Objectivity = 122
 D. Another Relevant Topic : Imagination = 130
 Conclusion = 131
 Suggested Reading = 132
6. History as Relic = 133
 Introduction = 133
 A. The Concept of Evidence = 134
 B. The Nature of Historical Evidence = 141
 C. The Use of Evidence = 147
 D. The Origins of Evidence = 160
 E. Another Relevant Topic : Oral History = 163
 Conclusion = 165
 Suggested Reading = 166
7. History as Event = 167
 Introduction = 167
 A. What Is an Event? = 169
 B. The Forms and Structures of History = 175
 C. Time = 182
 Conclusion = 191
 Suggested Reading = 192
8. History as Sequence = 193
 Introduction = 193
 A. Causation in History = 194
 B. The Dynamics of History = 204
 C. Explanation = 210
 D. Some other relevant topics = 226
 Conclusion = 227
 Suggested Reading = 227
9. History as Theory = 229
 Introduction = 229
 A. Speculative Philosophy of History = 230
 B. Patterns in History = 241
 Conclusion = 247
 Suggested Reading = 248
10. History Transcended : Metaphysics, Marx, Myth and Meaning = 249
 Introduction = 249
 A. Metaphysics : Historicism, Positivism and Idealism = 250
 B. Marx = 264
 C. Myth and Truth = 275
 D. Meaning = 280
 E. Some Other Relevant Topics = 285
 Conclusion = 286
 Suggested Reading = 286
Bibliography = 287
Index = 300