![]() "Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith Thomas. 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. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Published by Granta Books (1998) ISBN 10: 1862071047 ISBN 13: 9781862071049. In Defense of History is written by Richard J. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. 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. Evans is the Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. 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. ![]()
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