Rhetoric and Reality

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Rhetoric and Reality is written by Richard Grassby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1533130183 (ISBN 10) and 9781533130181 (ISBN 13).

Rhetoric and Reality appraises the value of culture as a mode of explanation in history. It re-examines the role of facts, which impatient theorists have chosen to ignore or manipulate, rethinks what validates theory, determines which questions historians should ask and which methods are likely to produce the best answers. It investigates representation and reality though six topics in British history (1550-1750) - the role of visual and word images, the emergence of a market culture, living with contradictions, the emergence of alternative cultures, the friction between the Natural World and Culture, and the reality of change.