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History and future : using historical thinking to imagine the future

"Historians have traditionally rejected the idea that we can use the study of history to think about the future. History and Future re-examines this long-held belief and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the 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 a historian views the past."--Jacket
eBook, English, c2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, c2007
1 online resource (xiii, 175 p.)
9780739155950, 0739155954
608092424
Print version:
A history of the future
Evidence, inference and statements
Structures and events
Historical imagination
Representation
Historical thinking
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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