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In Defence Of History
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Author : Richard J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Release Date : 1997
In Defence Of History written by Richard J. Evans and has been published by Granta Books (Uk) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
One of England's best historians has written a millennial successor to E.H. Carr's What is History? At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything at all from the past, Evans defends the importance of history incisively.
In Defence Of History
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Author : Nicholas Piercey
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
In Defence Of History written by Nicholas Piercey and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
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 study of the texts themselves. While In Defence of History addresses all aspects of historical method, its key focus is on an extensive evaluation of this postmodern thinking. Evans judges the acceptability of the reasoning advanced by the postmodernists – and finds it badly wanting. He is strongly critical both of the relevance and of the adequacy of their arguments, seeking to show that, ultimately, they are guilty of failing to accept the logic of their own position. All texts are equally valid, or invalid, they suggest – while insisting that the products of their own school are in fact more ‘true’ than those of their opponents. Evans concludes by pointing out that this same argument could be advanced to suggest that the works of Holocaust deniers are just as valid as are those of historians who accept that the Nazis set out to commit genocide. So why, he demands, is no postmodernist willing to say as much? A devastating example of the usefulness of relentless evaluation.
The Defence Of The Realm
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Author : Christopher Andrew
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-04-26
The Defence Of The Realm written by Christopher Andrew and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with History categories.
'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening Standard For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy - until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs. 'Definitive and fascinating ... whether reporting on Hitler in the 1930s, the Double-Cross System of the second world war, Zionist terrorism, the atom spies, the Cambridge spies, the so-called Wilson plot or the 1988 shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar, this book is essential reading' Alan Judd, Spectator 'The British Secret Service has opened its archives - and even 'insiders' may be in for a surprise ... magisterial ... extremely readable' Oleg Gordievsky, The Times 'Compelling ... a feast' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'A superb account ... He has captured every important detail of the Service ... unlikely to be surpassed for another 100 years' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
In Defence Of History
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language : en
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Release Date : 2000
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The European Defence Community A History
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Author : Edward Fursdon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1980-06-18
The European Defence Community A History written by Edward Fursdon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-06-18 with Political Science categories.
An Analysis Of Richard J Evans S
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Author : Nicholas Piercey
language : en
Publisher: Macat Library
Release Date : 2017-07-15
An Analysis Of Richard J Evans S written by Nicholas Piercey and has been published by Macat Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with History categories.
Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not so very far removed from fiction, something based on a historian's own interpretation of the past. Sir Richard Evans, however, insists that we can trust history and that it is possible to be objective about what happened in the past and what caused it to happen because historians are constrained and enabled by the surviving evidence. Evans shows how an understanding of social issues and rigorous scientific research give history shape, and why history is not simply what we make of it. He argues that this postmodernist view is contradictory and can lead to dangerous problems if we accept all historical interpretations as equally valid. Book jacket.
The Third Reich In History And Memory
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Author : Richard J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
The Third Reich In History And Memory written by Richard J. Evans and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
"First published in Great Britain by Little, Brown Book Group."
Beyond The Great Story
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Author : Robert F. Berkhofer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
Beyond The Great Story written by Robert F. Berkhofer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Historia categories.
What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this pathbreaking book. Robert Berkhofer addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians.
A Defence Of History And Class Consciousness
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Author : Georg Lukacs
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2002-08-17
A Defence Of History And Class Consciousness written by Georg Lukacs and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work is commonly held to be the foundational text for Western Marxism. As Stalinism took over in Russia, Lukacs was subjected to attacks for deviation. In the 1920s he wrote this response.
The Hitler Conspiracies
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Author : Richard J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-10-01
The Hitler Conspiracies written by Richard J. Evans and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Social Science categories.
'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening Standard The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles of investigation. This book takes five widely discussed claims involving Hitler and the Nazis and subjects them to forensic scrutiny: that the Jews were conspiring to undermine civilization, as outlined in 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'; that the German army was 'stabbed in the back' by socialists and Jews in 1918; that the Nazis burned down the Reichstag in order to seize power; that Rudolf Hess' flight to the UK in 1941 was sanctioned by Hitler and conveyed peace terms suppressed by Churchill; and that Hitler escaped the bunker in 1945 and fled to South America. In doing so, it teases out some surprising features these, and other conspiracy theories, have in common. This is a history book, but it is a history book for the age of 'post-truth' and 'alternative facts': a book for our own troubled times.