What Is History? |
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| Title: | What Is History? |
| Author: | Edward Hallet Carr |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 12 October, 1967 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 039470391X / 9780394703916 |
| List Price: | $14.75 |
| You Save: | $2.38 |
| Amazon Price: | $12.37 |
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• A Good Place To Start
14 March, 2006
Carr explores many crucial questions in the study of history including subjectivity, point of view, and the limitations sources pose in the construction of the past itself. It's clearly written, concise, and plain-spoken, even as those reading it may be preparing to pursue history into the non-concise, un-plainly spoken world of academia. "The serious historian is the one who recognizes the historically conditioned character of all values, not the one who claims for his own values an objectivity beyond history." Highly recommend.
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• Absolute Trash...
18 June, 2007
I would say more, but I don't think this book is important enough to waste the energy, so I won't...
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• What Is History?
06 September, 2007
Quite provactive, and quite interesting. Allows one to see history in a different light.
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• A Classic Series Of Essays
23 June, 2009
I've read a lot of history but this book reminds me that I haven't read enough books ABOUT history. This is a fascinating collection of essays well worth reading. My copy was in the marvelous Penguin classics series in the very cool orange-banded cover design. At AU$10 these little paperbacks are a real gift to the reading public.
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• Does History Have Meaning?
13 July, 2007
Though published more than forty years ago, this book has contemporary relevance. A series of lectures given by the author at Cambridge University, it covers topics such as "The Historian and His Facts" and History as progress." The author rejects the notions of Hegal and Marx that history automatically has transcendent meaning. On the other hand neither it it series of random events. He tells us that all history is rinsed through the background filters of those who write it. Therefore "revisionist history" is not an occasional accident produced by over zealous observers, it is the only kind of history available to us. This a good read, perhaps marred slightly by over generalizations. The group discussion in which I participated was simulating.
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