What Is History Now?

by Linda Colley, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Annabel Brett, et al.

Book Overview

E.H. Carr's What is History?, first published in 1961, was the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. To commemorate the book's forthieth anniversary, David Cannadine has gathered an all-star cast of contributors to ask and seek answers to E.H. Carr's classic question for a new generation of historians: what does it mean to study history at the start of the twenty-first century? The contributors pose this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403933367
• ISBN13: 9781403933362
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"