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The Landscape of History : How Historians Map the Past

by John Lewis Gaddis
$16.64
The Landscape of History : How Historians Map the Past - Thryft
The Landscape of History : How Historians Map the Past - Thryft

Discovering Historical Truth through Craft.

The Landscape of History is a concise, yet informative guide that explores the historian's craft and the importance of history in our modern world. Gaddis expertly dissects the myths and misconceptions surrounding historical research, and offers a fresh perspective that encourages readers to engage in critical thinking. Whether you're a history buff, student, or a curious reader, this book is an excellent resource that will strengthen your understanding of the past and present.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Landscape of History : How Historians Map the Past

by John Lewis Gaddis
$16.64
ISBN: 9780195066524
Authors: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date of Publication: 2002-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Philosophy, History
Related Topics: Theory, History, World History, Historical
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 1837 readers)

Description

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides asearching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today.Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques ofartists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with staticsystems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy.Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr, The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners, a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners, a startling challenge to social scientists, and an effective skewering of post-modernistclaims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or cares about history.
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Discovering Historical Truth through Craft.

The Landscape of History is a concise, yet informative guide that explores the historian's craft and the importance of history in our modern world. Gaddis expertly dissects the myths and misconceptions surrounding historical research, and offers a fresh perspective that encourages readers to engage in critical thinking. Whether you're a history buff, student, or a curious reader, this book is an excellent resource that will strengthen your understanding of the past and present.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.