What is History?

Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's "What is History?" has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text that still has power to provoke debate today. For this fortieth anniversary reissue, Richard J. Evans has written an extensive new introduction that discusses the origins and the impact of the book, and assesses its relevance in the age of the 21st century postmodernism and epistemological anxiety.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition; R.J.Evans - Introductory Note - Preface to Second Edition - The Historian and His Facts - Society and the Individual - History, Science and Morality - Causation in History - History as Progress - The Widening Horizon - From E.H. Carr's Files: Notes Towards a Second Edition of What is History? by R.W.Davies - Index

About the Author

E.H. CARR, sometime Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. AE(00): Foreword by RICHARD J. EVANS