Perspectives on History

Title page
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Copyright
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part One
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1. R. G. Collingwood and the Understanding of Actions in History
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2. Charles Beard and the Search for the Past as it Actually Was
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3. J. W. N. Watkins and the Nature of the Historical Individual
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Part Two
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4. A Controversy over Causes: A. J. P. Taylor and the Origins of the Second World War
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Part Three
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5. A Vision of World History: Oswald Spengler and the Life-Cycle of Cultures
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Introduction
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4.
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5.
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Index
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Related books
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