It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read What Was History? by Anthony Grafton
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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had...
What Was History? by Anthony Grafton is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read What Was History? aloud.
What Was History? is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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