In Defense of History

What’s best known about this book is Evans’s defense of history from postmodernism. But what’s interesting for us amateur readers of history is his general discussion of the many ways history is done. The book has a 12-page introduction and confines footnotes to the back, making it easier to read. T......more

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Bij momenten best moeilijk, maar toch zo toegankelijk mogelijk geschreven. Het is geen eenzijdige aanval op het postmodernisme, maar veeleer een brede overweging van de geschieddiscipline in haar geheel. Het gaat de confrontatie aan met met zowel het doorgedreven relativisme van enkele postmoderne de......more

Interesting topics and fluent writing. But "The Defence of the History" has quickly turned into the defence of the professional historians from the post-modernists, not always very convincing, imho. Also the relativism is represented by the critique of Carr 'What is history?" And sometimes I felt it......more

A great defence of history and a great defense of the truth Somehow postmodernist theory has gotten into the main stream of academia. Their grand, intricate, convoluted theories, that when applied, actually don't work, are being preached by English Literature teachers and cultural and critical theori......more