The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition PUB194801 is together

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The American Prospect

ISBN10: 130015456X

ISBN13: 9798530057656

In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue

The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition PUB194801 is togetherFor 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