1972/03/01 by Roger Price · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #European Political History Analysis #Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis #French Historical and Cultural Studies
paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x00001850
openalex publication_date 1972/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The writing of history involves not only the search for evidence concerning particular events, but a selection of the evidence which appears to the historian to be most relevant to his task and also the imposition of labels on this evidence, its division into categories, resulting in a neat explanatory pattern being imposed on an otherwise undifferentiated mass of information.