What is History?¶
Carr, E. H. (1961). What is History?.
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Primes¶
- Presentism
- Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) named and critiqued the pattern by which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British historians wrote history as a progressive narrative ending in present-day Whig liberal institutions, treating past actors and movements as either precursors of or obstacles to the present outcome.
This sourceFoundational philosophy of history: the historian inevitably selects facts under the influence of present-day concerns, and recognizing this is the precondition for disciplined practice rather than for collapse into relativism.
- Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) named and critiqued the pattern by which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British historians wrote history as a progressive narrative ending in present-day Whig liberal institutions, treating past actors and movements as either precursors of or obstacles to the present outcome.
- Revisionism
- Carr's (1961) What Is History? offers the locus classicus for treating revision as the normal mode of historical knowledge rather than as anomaly.
This sourceFoundational philosophy of history: the historian inevitably selects facts under the influence of present-day concerns, and recognizing this is the precondition for disciplined practice rather than for collapse into relativism.
- Carr's (1961) What Is History? offers the locus classicus for treating revision as the normal mode of historical knowledge rather than as anomaly.
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