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371 pages.
First published 1997. Also published as: In defense of history. Contents: The history of history -- History, science and morality -- Historians and their facts -- Sources and discourses -- Causation in history -- Society and the individual -- Knowledge and power -- Objectivity and its limits.
Summary: The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. Taking us into the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets written, he demolishes the wilder claims of postmodern historians, who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history, and explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives.