Norton & Company Date of Addition: 04/14/17 Copyrighted By: Richard J. "Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith ThomasĬopyright: 1999 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9780393285475 Related ISBNs: 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. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of. 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. Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ‘cultural turn’ taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth.Į.
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