A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor.
In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. 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.
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Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. Evans brings 'a remarkable range, a nose for the archives, a taste for controversy, and a fluent pen' ( The New Republic) to this splendid work. 'Essential reading for coming generations.' -Keith Thomas Book Details. Paperback.
Richard J Evans. In Defence of History. Granta, London, 1997. The History of History. However much they might have agreed on the need for accuracy and truthfulness, historians down the ages have held widely differing views on the purposes to which these things were to be put, and the way in which the facts they. (winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History), In Defense of. History, and Lying About Hitler. A Review by Doug Brown The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. In recent years a number of scholarly tomes on the Third Reich have been written, from Ian.
January 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-31959-0. 5.5 × 8.3 in / 288 pages. Sales Territory: Worldwide, excluding Canada, the British Commonwealth and the European Union. All Subjects.