Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Reason in social study
- 2 History and the social sciences
- 3 The historical method in social science
- 4 Function and dialectic in economic history
- 5 Fact and relevance in historical study
- 6 Economic and social history
- 7 Economic growth
- 8 A plague of economists?
- 9 The uses and abuses of economics
- 10 Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history
- 11 Technological progress in post-war Europe
- 12 A study of history
- 13 Karl Marx: a democrat?
- 14 Hugh Gaitskell: political and intellectual progress
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Reason in social study
- 2 History and the social sciences
- 3 The historical method in social science
- 4 Function and dialectic in economic history
- 5 Fact and relevance in historical study
- 6 Economic and social history
- 7 Economic growth
- 8 A plague of economists?
- 9 The uses and abuses of economics
- 10 Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history
- 11 Technological progress in post-war Europe
- 12 A study of history
- 13 Karl Marx: a democrat?
- 14 Hugh Gaitskell: political and intellectual progress
- Index
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- Fact and RelevanceEssays on Historical Method, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1971