| Author |
Hesketh, Ian |
| Year |
2011 |
| Publisher |
London: Pickering & Chatto |
| Number of pages |
229 |
| ISBN |
9781848931268 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Publisher's Note (2012):
New attitudes towards history in ninceteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic,
literary techniques in favour of a professionalised, scientific methodology. The development
of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of
the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural
philosophy. Hesketh examines parallels between the professionalisation of both history
and science at the time and challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach
to histoty.
