The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition PUB194801 ISBN10: 130015456X

ISBN10: 130015456X

He died in 2010

The American Prospect

Her Deverry series has hit The Times (London) and the Australian bestseller lists

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The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition PUB194801 ISBN10: 130015456XFor 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