In Defence of History

  • In Defence of History
    By Richard J. Evans

    In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization.

  • In Defence of History
    By Tom Stammers, Nicholas Piercey

    The second group could be considered a broad majority of historians, including Carr and Evans, who believed, to different extents, that access to the past through historical research was possible but that this would always be fragmented ...

  • In Defence of History
    By Nicholas Piercey

    La 4ème de couv. indique : "Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians' own interpretations of the past.

  • In Defence of History
    By Tom Stammers, Nicholas Piercey

    Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not so very far removed from fiction, something based on a historian's own interpretation of the past.

  • In Defence of History
    By Richard J. Evans

    One of England's best historians has written a millennial successor to E.H. Carr's What is History? At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything at all from the past, Evans defends the importance of history incisively.

  • In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship
    By Osborne, Ken, Our Schools/Our Selves Education Foundation

    In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship