East and West are terms in constant use, pregnant with meaning but hard to define. We speak of individuals or groups as 'Oriental' or Western' in character. We hear of an Asian viewpoint, unaccept- able to the West of a Western colonialism causing resentment in the East. East is East, we remember reading, and never the twain shall meet. 'But they must meet l' say the idealists, and so the deba…
HISTORY," said Charles Seignobos, "is not a science it is a method (procédé de connaissance) By that he meant that historical method may be applied to the subject matter of any discipline as a means of extracting fact. That is true, but it is no less true that historical method has a special significance for the historian. The historian (or other scholar acting in loco historici) applies the…
However selective the aims of individual historians may be, their collective aim is to climb to an increasingly comprehensive view of the past. This anthology is designed to show by what feats of imagina- tion and technique the hairpin turns in the road of historical writing have been engineered. The men represented here all possess certain qualities in common: literary ability, intellectual po…
Except for the relatively limited numbers of Westerners who live there, Korea has not yet become a travel destination of wide interest to Occidental tourists. The typical grand tour" of the Far East concentrates on such places as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Thailand only seldom do tour itineraries include even as much as a brief stopover at Seoul. Those fortunate enough to have come to know K…
THERE is one fact which, whether for good or ill, is of utmost importance in the public life of Europe at the present moment. This fact is the accession of the masses to complete social power. As the masses, by definition, neither should nor can direct their own personal existence, and still less rule society in general, this fact means that actually Europe is suffering from the greatest crisis…
The troubles over historical explanation why" and casual explanation,21. the case of the muddy pants,25.the deductive or "covering-law" model of explanation,26..application of the "covering-law" model to historical explanation "why" - the case of a population change ,27. the adequate explanation "why' of the muddy pants,29. "why" questions and the case of the dead mr.sweet,33. prediction by pre…
M ARSHALL GOODWIN SIMMS HODGSON meninggal secara menda dak pada tanggal 10 Jum 1968 dalam usia empat puluh tujuh tahun, sebelum ia menyelesaikan karya ini dan karya-karya lainnya. Pada hari kematiannya, manuskrip dari empat buku pertama The Venture of Islam (yang semuanya berjumlah semuanya enam buku) telah dise rahkan kepada sebuah penerbit sebagai final" (meskipun masih perlu dilakukan penyun…
On the last page of the last portrait in this book, Mr. Ayling reveals his personal judgment. Of Nehru he writes: Few other great national leaders have sat in the seat of power so long, or enjoyed such undisputed supremacy perhaps, even now , few combine so many impressive qualities."
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