Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77079 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'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

David Armitage
'If anyone were to provide an equivelent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine.'

Norman Davies
'…What is History Now?' presents a timely review of the debate forty years on and an expert examination of present trends and anxieties.'

Customer Reviews

A good update on Carr's `What is History?'
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.