The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

Jacket Description/Back: Reflection on the nature and uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of those who write it. Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter I: History, Men and Time 1. "The Choice of the Historian" 2. "History and Men" 3. "Historical Time" 4. "The Idol of Origins "5. "The Boundaries between Past and Present "6. "Understanding the Present by the Past "7. "Understanding the Past by the Present "Chapter II: Historical Observation 1. "General Characteristics of Historical Oberservation "2. "Evidence "3. "The Transmission of Evidence "Chapter III: Historical Criticism 1. "An Outline of the History of the Critical Method "2. "In Pursuit of Fraud and Error "3. "Toward a Logic of Critical Method "Chapter IV: Historical Analysis 1. "Judging or Understanding? "2. "From the Diversity of Human Functions to the Unity of Consciences "3. "Nomenclature "Chapter V: Historical Causation

Contributor Bio:  Bloch, Marc Marc Bloch was born at Lyons in 1886. He was for many years professor of medieval history at the University of Strasbourg before being called in 1936 to the Chair of Economic History at the Sorbonne. In 1939, he volunteered for active service; he was already fifty-three. After the fall of France in 1940, he went to the south, where he taught at the universities of Clermont Ferrand and Montpellier. When the south, too, was occupied, he joined the Resistance but was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, and finally shot in June 1944.