In Defence of History“A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection” on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy (Kirkus). In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. Taking us into the historians’ workshop, he offers a firsthand look at how good history gets written. In staunch opposition to the wilder claims of postmodern historians, Evans thoroughly dismantles the notion that a realistic grasp of history is impossible to attain. He then goes on to explain the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives. In the tradition of E.H. Carr’s What Is History? and G.R. Elton’s The Practice of History, Evans’ In Defense of History delivers “a model of lucid and intelligent historiographical analysis” (The Guardian, UK). |
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... possible to recapture any serious sense of past cultures . Evans performs a powerful demolition of the postmodern philosophical rejection of objectivity as epitomized by G.R. Elton and E.H. Carr ' History Today ' Evans is a master of ...
... possible to recapture any serious sense of past cultures . Evans performs a powerful demolition of the postmodern philosophical rejection of objectivity as epitomized by G.R. Elton and E.H. Carr ' History Today ' Evans is a master of ...
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... possible audience . If you want to know what it is modern historians think they are doing , and how they go about it , you will find no finer guide ' John Charmley , Daily Telegraph IN DEFENCE OF HISTORY Richard J. Evans Granta Books ...
... possible audience . If you want to know what it is modern historians think they are doing , and how they go about it , you will find no finer guide ' John Charmley , Daily Telegraph IN DEFENCE OF HISTORY Richard J. Evans Granta Books ...
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... Possible to Do History at All ? ' In place of the optimistic belief in the progress of the discipline held by both Carr , who saw it in the expansion of historical scholarship , and Elton , who saw it in the accumulation of historical ...
... Possible to Do History at All ? ' In place of the optimistic belief in the progress of the discipline held by both Carr , who saw it in the expansion of historical scholarship , and Elton , who saw it in the accumulation of historical ...
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... possible basis for the kind of political stability that had been so rudely shattered by the French Revolution of 1789. The purpose of history was seen not in providing examples for some abstract philosophical doctrine The History of ...
... possible basis for the kind of political stability that had been so rudely shattered by the French Revolution of 1789. The purpose of history was seen not in providing examples for some abstract philosophical doctrine The History of ...
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... possible to go.24 ... The war also revealed previous , apparently neutral scholarly histories of , for example , Germany , or nineteenth - century Europe , to have been deeply flawed in their interpretations . Events such as the Russian ...
... possible to go.24 ... The war also revealed previous , apparently neutral scholarly histories of , for example , Germany , or nineteenth - century Europe , to have been deeply flawed in their interpretations . Events such as the Russian ...
Contents
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Society and the Individual | |
Objectivity and its Limits | |
Afterword | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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