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McFarland, M.W. 1991. From Historie to Geschichte: Reconstructing the past through rhetorical arguments. In Whitburn, M. Le chainon manquant. In : 55–63. : 13–21.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Annotation

On the role of rhetoric in historiography. M. argues that it is rhetoric that transforms something in the past from `historical fact' into `historic event'.