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.
- ISBN10 0674013840
- ISBN13 9780674013841
- Publish Date 29 June 2004 (first published 22 September 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Imprint The Belknap Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English