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the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January - March 1961
E.H. Carr; with an introduction by Richard J. Evans
lxxix, 177 pages
Contents include: The historian and his facts -- Society and the individual -- History, science and morality -- Causation in history -- History as progress -- The widening horizon
Summary: In formulating an answer to the question of 'What is History', Carr argues that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have chosen to focus on. All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretive choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age
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