About this title: What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195066524ISBN:0195066529
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004-04-08
ISBN-13:9780195171570ISBN:0195171578
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195171570ISBN:0195171578
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 206 pages. (206 pages) what is history and why should we study it? is there such a thing as historical truth? is history a science? one of the most accomplished historians at work today, john lewis gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. numerous halftones (Paperback) read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195066524ISBN:0195066529
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 192 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 22 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195066524ISBN:0195066529
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2002-09
ISBN-13:9780195066524ISBN:0195066529
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195171570ISBN:0195171578
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195171570ISBN:0195171578
Description: New. What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Date Published: 2002
Description: As New in As New jacket. How historians map the past. 192 pp. with notes. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, the author argues that historians combine the techniques of artists, geologists, plaeontologists and evolutionary biologists and why a historican consciousness should matter to us today. read more
"It would be far easier to take the purring platitude about the beauty and importance of history at the end of this book if the preceding 150 pages hadn't been so dry and eggheaded. The book does give you an appreciation for the complexity of writing history (it's far more than just mere chronology) but it's terribly dry and dull."
"this book gave me a headache. it comes off as defensive in some places as gaddis pins history against science. gaddis went about dscribe how historians opperate in the only way that he could, by what they are not. while it was nice to think and discuss about how historians think about how they think about history, the concepts were at times hard to follow due to all of the 5 word phrases he used to describe how people within the field actually work. for a "jargon-less" field, this book was full of jargon. if i could give 1/2 stars, i would. but since i can not give 1/2 stars, i rounded up. while i was not expecting a comparison to the social sciences, it was most certainly refreshing to remember that history isn't a stand alone field, but interconnected with all other fields of thought, practice, and career pathes. gaddis accomplished what he set out to do, to spark a discussion on historiography by historians."
"I picked up this book because, as a geographer, I can't resist anything with the word in the title. In fact Gaddis uses quite a few cartographic and geographic metaphors. The book is full of metaphors. I guess that's his lecturing style. This was originally a series of lectures in Oxford. I enjoyed his chortling over attempts in the social sciences to be "scientific" and the way he pointed out that the search for independent variables was only really appropriate if you want to make predictions. His descriptions of history as an iterative process while looking for a good fit reminded me of the endless arguments we had as graduate students over "science" vs "mere description." I always preferred the latter."
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