books.google.fr - In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be....http://books.google.fr/books/about/Metahistory.html?hl=fr&id=v_DqhVZkQ2EC&q=past&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMetahistory
