Isbn The Landscape of History ( How Historians Map the Past ) 208 pages English

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ISBN The Landscape of History ( How Historians Map the Past ). Written by: John Lewis Gaddis, Number of pages: 208 pages, Language version: English

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What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today John Lewis Gaddis answers these and other questions in this short witty and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so they combine the techniques of artists geologists paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel in intriguing ways the new sciences of chaos complexity and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy. Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners a startling challenge to social scientists and an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads writes teaches or cares about history.

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