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8. Apr. 2004 · 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 ...
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- John Lewis Gaddis
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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...
8. Apr. 2004 · 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.
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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 p...
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An accessible treatment of what history is and what historians do considers historical truth and consciousness, profiling the historical method as a scientific and artistic process while explaining the importance of history and challenging beliefs in social science. (History)
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How do historians approach the past and what can we learn from their methods? In The Landscape of History, John Lewis Gaddis offers a provocative and insightful exploration of the nature and purpose of historical inquiry. Drawing on his own experience and the works of other scholars, he challenges the assumptions of social scientists, post-modernists, and skeptics, and defends the value of ...
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 ...
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