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Mythistory and other essays
William Hardy McNeill
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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I. Truth, Myth, and History (page 1)
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1. Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians (page 3)
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2. The Care and Repair of Public Myth (page 23)
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3. The Rise of the West as a Long-Term Process (page 43)
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II. The Need for World History (page 69)
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4. A Defense of World History (page 71)
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5. Beyond Western Civilization: Rebuilding the Survey (page 96)
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III. Masters of the Historical Craft (page 107)
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6. Lord Acton (page 109)
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7. Basic Assumptions of Toynbee's A Study of History (page 125)
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8. Historians I Have Known: Carl Becker (page 147)
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9. Historians I Have Known: Arnold J. Toynbee (page 174)
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10. Historians I Have Known: Fernand Braudel (page 199)
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Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JMH | 60.4 (Dec. 1988): 731-732 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28198812%2960%3A4%3C731%3AMAOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
AHR | 92.2 (Apr. 1987): 377-378 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198704%2992%3A2%3C377%3AMAOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J |
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Published: 1986
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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