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In Defence of History

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 17.01.2000 - 287 Seiten
A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. 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 defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. 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."Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith Thomas

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Nutzerbericht  - John - Goodreads

This was a lot of fun to read, as Evans is quite wry and funny and has a pleasant flow to his writing. I zipped through it pretty fast. Particularly good for history students...it serves as a nice ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: In Defense of History

Nutzerbericht  - Rebecca - Goodreads

There are elements to this book that I really liked, and which I found potentially useful for teaching, particularly chapter three, "Historians and their Facts"; chapter five on theories of causality ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Probe Ministries - In Defense of History
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The Objectivity of Historians -- or Else!
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In Defense of History
In Defense of History. A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical ...
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An In the Library book
Richard J. Evans' In Defense of History is an explanation of how historians do their work, but most of what he says is just as relevant to other forms of ...
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ECD Pilgrim
In his excellent book, In Defense of History (WW Norton & Company: New York, ... In Defense of History, p. 2 Their approaches were diametrically opposed. ...
ecdpilgrim.blogspot.com/ 2006/ 09/ history-what-is-history-and-how-do-we.html

Guest Essay: The Postmodernist Challenge to History - Sidebar ...
Evans, Richard J. In Defense of History. New York: ww Norton and Sons, 1999. Revised edition of book first published in England in 1997 (pbk, Granta Books, ...
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Peter Fritzsche - Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust ...
Indeed, Telling Lies About Hitler is a much more interesting book than his earlier, more comprehensive argument, In Defense of History (London, 1997), ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ modernism-modernity/ v010/ 10.4fritzsche.html

Teaching the Theory and Practice of History - Perspectives ...
Finally, we circle back to more general thoughts about history with Richard Evans's In Defense of History (1997). Students come to appreciate that history ...
www.historians.org/ perspectives/ Issues/ 2002/ 0209/ 0209teach2.cfm

Review of Richard Evans, Lying About Hitler
Richard Evans (1997), In Defense of History (New York: Norton: 0393319598). The Irving Case. For about a decade Richard Evans's (1987) book Death in ...
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"In Defense of Jewish Social History," by Todd M. Endelman
22 Evans, In Defense of History,. 159. He continues: “[T]he. postmodernist concentration. on words diverts attention. away from real suffering and ...
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Über den Autor (2000)

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, Professor Evans has also taught at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was Vice-Master, and the University of East Anglia, where he was Professor of European History.

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