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History and future : using historical thinking to imagine the future

Author:David J. Staley

Summary:Argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. This book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might - aiming for predictions and certainties - but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past.

eBook, English, c2007

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Publisher: Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, c2007

Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages : illustrations)

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1310747676

Subjects:

Histoire Méthodologie

History Methodology

Contents:

A history of the future

Evidence, inference and statements

Structures and events

Historical imagination

Representation

Historical thinking

More Information:

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