What is history?
Edward Hallett Carr (Author), Richard J. Evans (Writer of introduction)
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 the 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 twenty-first century postmodernism and epistemological anxiety -- Back cover
Print Book, English, 2001
40th Anniversary edition View all formats and editions
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001
lxxxiv, 155 pages ; 22 cm
9780333977019, 0333977017
48782985
The historian and his facts
Society and the individual
History, science and morality
Causation in history
History as progress
The widening horizon