Download or read book On History and Other Essays written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In five essays, including three on historiography, one of the greatest minds in English political thought in the twentieth century explores themes central to the human experience: the nature of history, the rule of law, and the quest for power that is intrinsic to the human condition. Michael Oakeshott believed, as Timothy Fuller observes, that "the historian's effort to understand the past without ulterior motive [is the] effort which distinguishes the historian as historian from all who examine the past for the guidance they expect it to provide about practical concerns."