In Defence of History

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The success of this movement led to the assertion that it was the only true history and that all history was social history. Recent advances in computer technology and satellite mapping have enabled remarkable discoveries of previously unimagined physical 'evidence', from ancient trade routes to the Turkish railway lines that T. This descent into post-truth can be halted however, by Evans’ reassertion that “today we need to say, again, that there is such a thing as the truth and you can find it out” . In addition, this reply also considers some of the points raised in letters published in The Times Higher Educational Supplement on 19 and 26 September 1997 in reply to my article 'Truth Lost in Vain Views', published in the same periodical on 12 September 1997 (p.

Upacara yang terkemudian itu dilakukannya dengan sungguh ‘rakus’ dan ‘kejam’ sekali, sungguh berbeza dengan nada yang digunapakai sebelumnya; pembaca tertanya-tanya samada ada bahagian itu masih ditulis oleh penulis yang sama. Mõningaid juhtmõtteid korrutab Evans natuke tyytult palju (ning jääb mulje, et raamat võinuks seeläbi ka lyhem olla), ent pisut hämmastavalt näib, et sellest hoolimata pole mõned kriitikud suutnud neid tabada.Aku perlu jujur untuk berkata ini: jikalau bukan kerana minatku kepada perbahasan historiografi, iaitu bidan sejarah kepada (penulisan) sejarah, buku ini adalah bernilai empat bintang paling tinggi.

Peralihan medan makna yang telah berlaku samada intra-teks mahupun ekstra-teks, dari satu zaman ke zaman yang lain, telah menyebabkan penafsiran sang sejarahwan menjadi tidak lebih daripada agak-agakan.The most extreme postmodernists argue that the past can be described in so many different ways and from so many different points of view that it's impossible to determine what really happened. I would have given this three stars, because it is very complex at times and Evans' argument isn't quite as clearly put as I would have liked (largely because I struggle with the whole concept of Postmodernism, and he doesn't really explain it well).