Lying About Hitler
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise. For instance, don't all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence? Is it possible…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-2378-2
- EAN: 9780786723782
- Produktnummer: 26221918
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 590 KB
Über den Autor
Richard J. Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and a noted specialist on modern German history. He is the author of In Defense of History and Death in Hamburg.
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