Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Ed - GoodreadsGreat read - lucid, often entertaining and not afraid to be controversial. You'd want to be into historiography, but this is a good addition to help put the state of the debate in the second half of ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Stuart West - GoodreadsThis book convinced me to take ancient history over psychology. Essential this is about how we look at history from a modern point of view. How we (as historians) dilute historical accuracies with our ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Allen - GoodreadsThank you to Jackie Hurwitz for even reminding me of What is History? by Edward Hallett Carr. I read this book for a course on Historiography at Middlebury College in 2004. I should remark that this ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsA fun and quick examination of modern history and the discussion of what "history" really is.
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - DoctorM - GoodreadsOne of the classics of modern thinking about History as a discipline. Simply put--- something every serious History major or graduate student should read...and so should anyone interested in what History as a discipline is and does. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Rebecca - GoodreadsIf you thought studying history was simply just about dates, think again...and again. This book ended up with me tied up in philosophical knots about the study of the past. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Seán - GoodreadsI bought a 50¢ copy of this book years ago on a bargain bin spree at either Housing Works or the Strand. Until recently, every time I paged through it I couldn't help but deride its maddeningly simple ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Gregg - GoodreadsOld news to the professionals, I suppose. I tell my students all the cliches already: "History is written by the victors"; "History is a cruel joke on the living"; "History is pop culture." (That last ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: What Is History?
Nutzerbericht - Ben - GoodreadsThis was assigned reading for my Historiography class at the University of New Mexico. The professor used to call himself Old Spidle. And throughout that class he used to remind us of this book, and ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
