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8. Nov. 2002 · His new book, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford University Press), uses graceful metaphors of cartography to explore historical craft and consciousness. The author, a ...
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.
- John Lewis Gaddis
The Landscape of History 2. Time and Space 3. Structure and Process 4. The Interdependency of Variables 5. Chaos and Complexity 6. Causation, Contingency, and Counterfactuals 7. Molecules with Minds of Their Own 8. Seeing Like a Historian NOTES INDEX
11. Mai 2019 · Short Paper: The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis Annotation John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Throughout his book, The Landscape of History, he uses the language of science to describe how historians approach their subjects and seeks to determine whether history is, in fact, a science ...
14. Nov. 2002 · 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. 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 ...
7. Okt. 2015 · Seeing Like a Historian. In The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, author John Lewis Gaddis explains the many ways to effectively interpret history, while presenting a critique of past methods. By taking his audience through the relationship between the studies of art, science, and history, Gaddis is able to expand on the ...
Book Review. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. By John Lewis Gaddis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; 182 pp., illustrations, notes, index; cloth $23.00. In The Landscape of History, John Lewis Gaddis offers an insightful glimpse at what historians do. Based on a series of lectures given by the author at Oxford ...
