In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization.
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 ...
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.
Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not so very far removed from fiction, something based on a historian's own interpretation of the past.
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