The new history and the old : critical essays and reappraisals / Gertrude Himmelfarb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Physical Description:

viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

Summary:

For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her illuminating exploration of the myriad ways--new and old--in which historians make sense of the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index.

ISBN:

0674013840

OCLC:

54081550