![]() ![]() He challenges and undermines the belief, brought to university by too many students on leaving school, that history is simply a matter of objective fact. Carr engages in lively arguments with many other historians about the nature of history. What is History? does not talk down to the student in the manner of conventional history primers or introductions to the study of history. Carr was a practising historian of vast experience, who had the ability to think clearly about difficult philosophical issues and to communicate his thought in a concise, witty and thoroughly readable manner. Carr’s What is History? has been widely used as an introduction to historical study by teachers and students since its first publication in 1961, and it is easy to see why. ![]() Currently the field is held by two books published thirty or more years ago, by the British historians Edward Hallett Carr and Sir Geoffrey Elton. But whatever the intellectual climate, they need to be confronted by every new generation of historians in turn. Of course, there have been many attempts to tackle them in the past. In the postmodern age, historians are being compelled to address these questions afresh. ‘This book is about how we study history, how we research and write about it, and how we read it. ![]()
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