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The Varieties of History : From Voltaire to the Present
The Varieties of History From Voltaire to the Present Author:Frtiz Stern This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic tendencies which have affected all modern historians: the transformation of history into an ac... more »ademic discipline and society's growing demand for history.« less