An Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History
In Defence of History
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2017
Summary
Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian’s profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ‘cultural turn’ taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of biased writers who had incomplete information, none could be privileged above others. In this reading, there could be no objective history, merely the stu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912128778 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1912128772 |
| Author: | Nicholas Piercey, Tom Stammers |
| Publisher: | Macat International Limited |
| Imprint: | Macat International Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | The Macat Library |
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Nicholas Piercey
Dr Nicholas Piercey holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from University College, London. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in UCL’s Department of Dutch in the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society.
Dr Thomas Stammers is lecturer in Modern European History at Durham University, where he specialises in the Cultural History of France in the Age of Revolution. He is the author of Collection, Recollection, Revolution: Scavenging the Past in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Dr Stammers’s research interests include a wide range of historiographical and theoretical controversies related to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe.
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