Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood.
Ranging from Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each chapter begins with an introduct.
The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the study of History in the twentieth century.
This is as true of scientific empiricism as it is of poststructualism.
Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood