What is History? by E.H. Carr - ISBN: 9780141010205
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History isn’t fact, but a story told through historians’ eyes.

What is History?

The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2018

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Summary

One of the great history books of the 20th century, now in Penguin Modern Classics.

“E.H. Carr, author of the monumental History of Soviet Russia, now proves himself to be not only one of our most distinguished historians but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory” - Spectator

In formulating an answer to the question of ‘What is History’, Carr argues that the ‘facts’ of history are simply those which historians have chosen to focus on…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141010205
ISBN-10:0141010207
Author:E.H. Carr
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Edition:1st
Release Date:15 June 2018
Weight:202g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 17mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

E.H. Carr

Edward Hallett Carr was born in 1892. He joined the Foreign Office in 1916 and worked there in many roles until 1936 when he became Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. After the war he became a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and then of Trinity College, Cambridge. His major work was the 14-volume A History of Soviet Russia (published 1950-78). What Is History? is based on his Trevelyan Lectures, delivered in 1961. He died in 1982.

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