Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians a
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Table of contents :
List of Illustrations
Preliminaries
1. Introduction
2. Mapping the Discipline of History
3. History in other disciplines
4. The Status of Historical Knowledge
5. Periodisation
6. Public History
7. Historians' Skills
Postscript