One can argue with him about his priorities, that is, one can admit the significance of linguistic strategy without going all the way with him in making it paramount in works of history as well as in philosophy of history. Hayden White,s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of. (?) White is the first to have tried to grapple systematically with the manner in which literary artistry is not merely decorative or ancillary but integral to the historical work in hand. Books by Hayden White Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe 9781421415604 Johns Hopkins University Press V9781421415604. White is one of the very few historians who has made it his business to acquire such a combination of skills, and the result of his labours is a book what will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative. ?This is an immensely ambitious undertaking, requiring mastery of philosophy and historiography as well as of linguistic theory. Metahistory: the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, 1975. It was in this juncture, American historiographer Hayden White published his magnum opus.
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