E-book
Sometimes an art : nine essays on history
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101874486
- ISBN: 1101874481
- ISBN: 9781101874479
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part One. On history and the struggle to get it right -- Considering the slave trade : history and memory -- Context in history -- Three trends in modern history -- History and the creative imagination -- The losers -- Part Two. The peripheries of the first British Empire -- Thomas Hutchinson in context : the ordeal revisited -- England's cultural provinces : Scotland and America (co-authored with John Clive) -- Peopling the peripheries -- The search for perfection -- Appendix. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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