| What Is History Now? 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Cannadine, D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403933367 ISBN-13: 9781403933362 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $36.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: 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 question anew for the most important and lively subfields of history writing today. For example, Alice Kessler-Harris ponders "what is gender history now?" while Paul Cartledge asks "what is social history now?" This volume stands alongside E.H. Carr's classic, paying tribute to his seminal inquiry while moving the debate into new territory, ensuring its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 901 |
| LCCN: 2002072601 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.42" W x 8.48" (0.54 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: E. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage points, answer Carr's question for a new generation of historians: What does it mean to study history at the start of the Twenty-first century? This volume stands alongside Carr's classic, paying tribute to his seminal enquiry while moving the debate into new territory, to ensure its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study. |