Landscape of History How Historians Map the Past

Name: Landscape of History How Historians Map the Past
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ISBN: 9780195171570

ISBN-10: 0195171578

ISBN-13: 9780195171570

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Lewis Gaddis

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What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.80" wide x 5.31" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale University.



Preface



The Landscape of History



Time and Space



Structure and Process



The Interdependency of Variables



Chaos and Complexity



Causation, Contingency, and Counterfactuals



Molecules with Minds of Their Own



Seeing Like a Historian


Notes


Index