Dictionary of Concepts in History

by Harry Ritter

"In this book I survey some of the existing literature and attempt to identify and discuss some of the key concepts of contemporary historical analysis.…entries in this dictionary summarize not only the thought of professional historians but some work in the field of philosophy of history as well."
-- from the Preface

Dictionaries in the Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities series uniformly present brief, substantive discussions of the etymological development and contemporary use of the significant concepts in a discipline or subdiscipline. Another feature that distinguishes these dictionaries from others in the field is their emphasis upon bibliographic information.

Some examples of entries in this dictionary:

• Causation
• Covering Laws
• Cultural History
• Determinism
• Econometric History
• Evidence
• Fact
• Feudalism
• Ideology
• Interpretation
• Liberalism
• Nation
• Objectivity
• Progress
• Race
• Relativism
• Socialism
• Universal History

Genres: Reference

511 pages, Hardcover

First published September 23, 1986