In Defense of History
Richard J. Evans
Jun 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Julian Elfer
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In his compact, brilliant, and compulsively readable account, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who deny the possibility of achieving any kind of certain knowledge about the past.
In his compact, brilliant, and compulsively readable account, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of doc...
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Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University. Knighted in 2012 for his services to scholarship, he is the author of many prizewinning and bestselling books, including his acclaimed study of the Third Reich, whose three volumes have been translated into sixteen languages.
British-born Julian Elfer is an award-winning New York City-based actor and audiobook narrator. With over fifty titles to his credit, Julian brings a unique facility for characterization in fiction and an empathy for the personalities and events of the past.
Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University. Knighted in 2012 for his services to scholarship, he is the author of many prizewinning and bestselling books, including his acclaimed study of the Third Reich, whose three volumes have been translated into sixteen ...
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