The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis (Author), Jack Chekijian (Narrator)
Requirements: MP3 Player, 64 kbps, Duration: 6 hours 16 minutes (Chapterized), 143 MB
Overview: What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian’s craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn’t require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don’t much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who’s really being scientific, and who isn’t? This question, too, is one Gaddis explores in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy.
Genre: Audiobooks > History
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