What is History Now? by D. Cannadine (PDF)

Description

E. H. Carr’s What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage points, answer Carr’s question for a new generation of historians: What does it mean to study history at the start of the Twenty-first century? This volume stands alongside Carr’s classic, paying tribute to his seminal enquiry while moving the debate into new territory, to ensure its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review ‘…he has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of discovery that 40 years of specialization has produced.’ – Blair Worden, Sunday Telegraph’…should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars…’ – Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books’Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon.’ – E. A. Breisach, ChoiceReviews of the Hardback edition:’What is History? strongly influenced the generation of professional historians who came to maturity in the following decades. ‘What is History Now?’ presents a timely review of the debate forty years on and an expert examination of present trends and anxieties.’ – Norman Davies’What is History Now? presents the ideal solution to the dilemma of how to reappraise Carr’s book without burying it. If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first-century, it would surely be David Cannadine.’ – David Armitage’At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves…extremely readable and highly stimulating.’ – Roy Porter’…destined to become a must-have text for today’s history students.’ – Tristram Hunt, BBC History Magazine'[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery.’ – Blair Worden, The Sunday Telegraph About the Author FELIPE FERNANDEZ ARMESTO Professor of History, Queen Mary, University of London. His many books include Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Bantam Press, 1997 ANNABEL BRETT Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Her publications include Liberty, Right and Nature, Cambridge University Press, 1997 PAUL CARTLEDGE Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Clare College. He has edited the Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 1997 LINDA COLLEY Leverhulme Research Professor in History, London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications includes the bestselling Britons: Forging a Nation, 1707-1837, Vintage, 1996, which won the Wolfson Prize RICHARD J. EVANS Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He is the author of In Defence of History, Granta, 2000 ALICE KESSLER HARRIS Professor of History, Columbia University. She is co-editor of U.S. History as Women’s History, University of North Carolina Press, 1995 OLWEN HUFTON Leverhulme Research Professor, University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College. Her many publications include The Prospect Before Her. A History of Women in Western Europe, I: 1500-1800, Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1996 SUSAN PEDERSEN Professor of History, Harvard University. Her publications include Family Policy and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-45, Cambridge University Press, 1993 MIRI RUBIN Professor of European History and Director of Research, Queen Mary, University of London. Her publications include Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This is not a book that I would typically read. It is one of the required books for a Historical Methods course. The information is excellent, just not something to read in your free time. Just my opinion. 4 stars as a textbook, 3 as a book to read

⭐Not a bad price. Needed the book for a class I was taking. I hated the book but it arrived in a timely manner and was in good condition!

⭐Hey it was required for class, they had a digital PDF in the class of it but prefer printed, so this does the job. Can’t complain was well priced as well.

⭐I would recommend this book to anyone interested in keeping up-to-date with the development of History as a discipline in last few decades. The book will never generate academic shockwaves on the scale of E. H. Carr’s `What is History?’, but it nonetheless gathers together and presents effectively the insights of today’s experts on various sub-fields within the discipline.The book begins with a general introduction by Richard Evans (author of `In Defence of History’) on `What is History? – Now’, followed by chapters by other historians discussing Social, Political, Religious, Cultural, Gender, Intellectual and Imperial History. The discussions are on the whole balanced, well-argued and served up in manageable chapter portions. I found the book extremely helpful as a historiographical overview both as a history undergraduate and graduate student.

⭐This interesting and topical upgrade to/commentary on Carr’s classic _What is History?_ recaps the historiographical history of the sudden ‘postmodern turn’ that occurred in the wake of that book with its rapid proliferation of distinct new methodologies, or anti-methodologies. Thrown in relief by Carr’s original question these gestures seem to be coming full circle at a moment when the nature of historical writing is once again under examination, as the ‘now’ in the title suggests. But historical theory is bedouin traveller, never content with itself. One might confound the triumph of the anti-theorists by contro-posing another question, What is evolution? The current paradigmatic has, in part, enforced the wrong answer to question, in the process enforcing the ‘must remain muddled’ regime of historical explanation. What is evolution and what is history and are the two questions the same and if not when did evolution become history?These questions remain unanswered in a Darwinian age.

⭐Perfettogood

⭐Great way to get those text books. Very good condition and cheap. Helps the budget while getting value for money.

Keywords

Free Download What is History Now? in PDF format
What is History Now? PDF Free Download
Download What is History Now? 2002 PDF Free
What is History Now? 2002 PDF Free Download
Download What is History Now? PDF
Free Download Ebook What is History Now?