The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (repost)
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past By John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2004 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0195171578 , 0195066529 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2004 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0195171578 , 0195066529 | PDF | 1 MB
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.