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What Is History?

by Edward Hallett Carr

About this title: Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's "What is History?" has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text that still has power to provoke debate today. For this fortieth anniversary reissue, Richard J. Evans has written an extensive new introduction that discusses the origins and the impact of the book, and assesses its relevance in the age of the 21st century postmodernism and epistemological ... read more

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Binding: Trade Paperback Publisher: Random House Inc, New York Date Published: 1967 ISBN-13: 9780394703916 ISBN: 039470391X

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What is History? the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge Jan-Mar 1961

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What is History? a Distinguished Historian Seeks to Reconcile the Doctrine of Progress With the Present State of the World in the Light of Modern Concepts of Determinism, Accident, Causation, Objectivity, and the Role of the Individual in History..

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Edition: REV ED Binding: Hardback Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Country = UNITED KINGDOM Date Published: 2002 ISBN-13: 9780333977019 ISBN: 0333977017

Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 224 pages. (224 pages) to mark the 40th anniversary of this text, this updated volume reviews the state of the discipline at the beginning of the 21st century. renowned scholars ask and seek to answer carr's question for a new generation of historians: what does it mean to study history at the start of the 21st century? index edition rev ed (Hardback) read more

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Mar 25, 2009
By Corley, Woodside, NY

"I 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 from deriding its maddeningly simple-minded premise: in a series of lectures at Cambridge in the 1950s, Carr set out to actually answer the question what is history.

Is history a science? Are there "causes" for historical events? What is fact? And, yes, this is as boring as one might expect. You advance through a few pages of this kind of freshman exegesis and you start asking "Are you serious?" over and over.

Yet, and of course, Carr wins you over, oh word booty. He builds on these simple questions and lays out a truly compelling progressive theory of history. He lets you in on conversations he's been having with himself about his profession, the thing that clearly animates his entire life, and it's an honest and rare little inspiration.

Plus, he gently mocks conservatives now and then. Here's a wonderful bit about the hidden cost of conservatism that made me mentally pump my fist:
In ordinary life we are more often involved than we sometimes care to admit in the necessity of preferring the lesser evil, or of doing evil that good may come. In history the question is sometimes discussed under the rubric 'the cost of progress' or 'the price of revolution.' This is misleading. As Bacon says in the essay On Innovations, 'the forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' The cost of conservation falls just as heavily on the under-privileged as the cost of innovation on those who are deprived of their privileges. The thesis that the good of some justifies the sufferings of others is implicit in all government, and is just as much a conservative as a radical doctrine."

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"That's a good question!"

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By Jeffrey, Washington, DC

"For every moment of insight, there were twelve moments of agony.

However, the language used did provide several laughs for me and anyone who had the misfortune of being read to aloud."

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