The Historiansa Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time
How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was like then.” It is easy to demolish the very idea of historical knowing, but it is impossible to demolish the importance of historical knowing. In an age of cable television pundits and anonymous bloggers dueling over history, the value of owning history increases at the same time as our confidence in history as a way of knowing crumbles. Historical knowledge thus presents a paradox — the more it is required, the less reliable it has become. To reconcile this paradox — that history is i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-3715-6
- EAN: 9780814737156
- Produktnummer: 20568281
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 215 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.7 cm 332 g
- Gewicht: 332
Über den Autor
Peter Charles Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He has authored and co-authored more than twenty books, including Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin and The Supreme Court: An Essential History.
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