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Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians’ own interpretations of the past. Evans, however, argues that we can trust history and it is possible to be objective about what happened and what caused it to happen.

An Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History

In Defence of History

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Summary

Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian’s profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ‘cultural turn’ taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of biased writers who had incomplete information, none could be privileged above others. In this reading, there could be no objective history, merely the stu…

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ISBN-13:9781912128778
ISBN-10:1912128772
Author:Nicholas Piercey, Tom Stammers
Publisher:Macat International Limited
Imprint:Macat International Limited
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:15 July 2017
Weight:128g
Dimensions:129mm x 198mm
Series:The Macat Library
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About The Author

Nicholas Piercey

Dr Nicholas Piercey holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from University College, London. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in UCL’s Department of Dutch in the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society.

Dr Thomas Stammers is lecturer in Modern European History at Durham University, where he specialises in the Cultural History of France in the Age of Revolution. He is the author of Collection, Recollection, Revolution: Scavenging the Past in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Dr Stammers’s research interests include a wide range of historiographical and theoretical controversies related to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe.

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