What Is History?
1961 book by Edward Carr / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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What Is History? is a 1961 non-fiction book by historian E. H. Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history.
Author | E. H. Carr |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Historiography lectures |
Publisher | University of Cambridge & Penguin Books |
Publication date | 1961 |
The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history and their accessibility has resulted in What is History? becoming one of the key texts in the field of historiography.[1]
Some of Carr's ideas are contentious, particularly his relativism and his rejection of contingency as an important factor in historical analysis. His work provoked a number of responses, most notably Geoffrey Elton's The Practice of History.
Carr was in the process of revising What is History? for a second edition at the time of his death.[2]