2.5
What Is History?
Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell us that only Caesar's crossing was significant. All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretative choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age. Yet if absolute objectivity is impossible, the role of the historian need in no way suffer; nor does history lose its fascination.
With lucidity, Carr casts a light on the proper function of the historian and the vital importance of history in modern society.
“This is an admirably stimulating and intrepid book, a bold excursion into a region of central importance where most contemporary philosophers and historians, unaccountably, either fear or disdain to tread.”—Isaiah Berlin, New Statesman
With lucidity, Carr casts a light on the proper function of the historian and the vital importance of history in modern society.
“This is an admirably stimulating and intrepid book, a bold excursion into a region of central importance where most contemporary philosophers and historians, unaccountably, either fear or disdain to tread.”—Isaiah Berlin, New Statesman
HistoryHistoriographyStudy & TeachingEducationResearch
RELEASED1967
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
Edward Hallett "Ted" Carr CBE FBA (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for *A History of Soviet Russia*, a 14-volume history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1929 including *The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923* (3 vols.), *The Interregnum*, 1923-1924 (1 vols.), *Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926* (3 vols.), *Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929* (3 vols.), for his writings on international relations, particularly *The Twenty Years' Crisis*, and for his book *What Is History?* in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices. **Source**: [E. H. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Carr) on Wikipedia.
2.5
What Is History?
Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell us that only Caesar's crossing was significant. All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretative choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age. Yet if absolute objectivity is impossible, the role of the historian need in no way suffer; nor does history lose its fascination.
With lucidity, Carr casts a light on the proper function of the historian and the vital importance of history in modern society.
“This is an admirably stimulating and intrepid book, a bold excursion into a region of central importance where most contemporary philosophers and historians, unaccountably, either fear or disdain to tread.”—Isaiah Berlin, New Statesman
With lucidity, Carr casts a light on the proper function of the historian and the vital importance of history in modern society.
“This is an admirably stimulating and intrepid book, a bold excursion into a region of central importance where most contemporary philosophers and historians, unaccountably, either fear or disdain to tread.”—Isaiah Berlin, New Statesman
HistoryHistoriographyStudy & TeachingEducationResearch
RELEASED1967
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH224
LANGUAGEEN
Edward Hallett "Ted" Carr CBE FBA (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for *A History of Soviet Russia*, a 14-volume history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1929 including *The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923* (3 vols.), *The Interregnum*, 1923-1924 (1 vols.), *Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926* (3 vols.), *Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929* (3 vols.), for his writings on international relations, particularly *The Twenty Years' Crisis*, and for his book *What Is History?* in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices. **Source**: [E. H. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Carr) on Wikipedia.
