IN DEFENSE OF HISTORY

Evans (modern history, Cambridge Univ.) addresses postmodernist proclamations that history is complacent, endangered, or dead.

From Publisher:

E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field that has held sway for a generation, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, spirited survey, Richard Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation and powerful computer models to the skilled investigator's sudden insight, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Grounded in practice, Evans's defense of history as a distinctive type of knowledge will stand as "essential reading for coming generations" (Keith Thomas in New Statesman and Society).

Product Info

ISBN: 0393046877

ISBN-13: 9780393046878

Publisher: W W Norton & Company

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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