ABSTRACT
In treating of the implications for the historian of Chapter Two’s general analysis of narrative, Chapter Three focused on those which relate particularly to the actual practice of construing, constructing, and presenting history. Its theoretical content emerged from examining the needs of that practice when conceived of as unequivocally narrative in structure, and therefore more from the nature of the practice of history than from some a priori general principles. Nevertheless, this is not to say that Chapter Three’s theoretical content does not point to some general ‘principles’, as should be clear from its concluding summary.
