What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961

by R. W. Davies (Editor) Edward Hallett Carr (Author) (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1964

  $4.63

• Used

  Paperback
  1973

  $5.04

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $24.99

  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.