New History and the Old Paperback by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Product Details

• Publisher: Belknap Press (2004-05-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674013841
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years.

In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history,” Himmelfarb enriches her illuminating exploration of the myriad ways—new and old—in which historians make sense of the past.

About the Author

Gertrude Himmelfarb is the author of many books, including intellectual biographies of Acton, Darwin, and Mill; essays on the Victorians, including Victorian Minds; the social history studies The Idea of Poverty and The De-Moralization of Society; and reflections on contemporary culture, On Looking into the Abyss and One Nation, Two Cultures.