Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The use and abuse of history

Front Cover
0 Reviews
Chatto and Windus, 1975 - History - 254 pages

From inside the book

 

23 pages matching reprinted in this book

Where's the rest of this book?

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

Ancient history: evidence and models
Ancient history: evidence and models
Moses I. Finley
Snippet view - 1987
Economy and society in ancient Greece
Economy and society in ancient Greece
Moses I. Finley
Snippet view - 1981
Early Greece: the bronze and archaic ages
Early Greece: the bronze and archaic ages
Moses I. Finley
Snippet view - 1970
All related books »

Contents

Preface page 9
ii
The Ancestral Constitution
35
Generalizations in Ancient History
60

11 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

The use and abuse of history
The use and abuse of history
Moses I. Finley
Snippet view - 1986
The use and abuse of history
The use and abuse of history
Moses I. Finley
Snippet view - 1975

Common terms and phrases

alienation analysis ancestral constitution ancient history anthropology antiquity archaeology argument Aristonicus Aristotle Athenian Athens behaviour called Cambridge chapter city-state claim classical Cleisthenes common conception contemporary course critical culture democracy discipline discussion distinction economic elite English ephors Essays evidence example fact fifth century B.C. formulation fourth century B.C. function fundamental Greece Greek law Greek world Hellenism Hellenistic helots Herodotus Hesiod historians historiography human Iambulus Ibid ideas institutions Isocrates Jane Harrison juristic kind land literary literature London mean ment modern Momigliano myth nation never Norman Yoke Odysseus past perhaps period perioeci philosophical Plato polis political principle Pringsheim problem Ptolemaic Egypt question quoted reason reprinted restricted Revolution rhetoric Roman Rome rules sense slaves social society Sociology Solon Sparta stasis structure syssitia theory Thucydides tion tradition Utopia Wolff word writing wrote Xenophon

References to this book

From Google Scholar

Political Comedy in Aristophanes
Malcolm Heath - 1938 - politics
Athenian Democracy and Legal Change
MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG - 2004 - American Political Science Review
The evolution of philosophy of education within educational studies
JR Muir - 1996 - Educational Philosophy and Theory
A Classicist Appraisal
Cognition
All Scholar search results »

Bibliographic information

QR code for The use and abuse of history
TitleThe use and abuse of history
AuthorMoses I. Finley
PublisherChatto and Windus, 1975
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 24, 2008
Length254 pages
Subjects › 

History / Historiography
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan