In Defence of History

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Granta Books, 1997 - History - 307 pages
This volume combines argument about the nature of history with case studies of how good history is written and researched. Richard Evans is the author of Death in Hamburg (winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History) and Rituals of Retribution.

Contents

Introduction
1
The History of History
15
History Science and Morality
45
Society and the Individual
161
Objectivity and its Limits
224
Notes
254
Further Reading
284
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