It is depressing to think that this uninformed yet totally self-confident work of naive provincialism should come from close to the heartlands of English culture. Dog’, ‘kalbun’ dan ‘hund’ adalah nama berbeza di dalam bahasa berbeza namun ketiga-tiganya merujuk kepada objek yang sama. Evans brings "a remarkable range, a nose for the archives, a taste for controversy, and a fluent pen" ( The New Republic ) to this splendid work. During the early part of the twentieth century, developments such as the application of Marxist principles to history and rising interest in social and economic history added new divisions between conservative and radical, and these led to the two classic works in English on the study of history, E.

The gap between reality and representation, including historical reality, historical representation, far from being radical and irremediable, consists only of readily discernible degrees of directness and indirectness. He does see good things in it, including an interest in the biographies of completely obscure individuals to illuminate a period of history (as in Simon Schama's book on the French Revolution, Citizens), and a renewed emphasis on good writing as a virtue.In Defence of History is a balanced account from a conservative perspective; Evans rejects extreme viewpoints but is happy to praise positive aspects of the various approaches to the study of the past. Enjoyable romp through different contemporary approaches to history writing, pitching itself as follow-up/reappraisal of E. Samada hal itu sesuatu yang mendatangkan kelegaan atau kekecewaan adalah bergantung kepada hajat asal para pembaca yang membeleknya.

The book covers various topics, i remember one of my favorites was when the book asks whether history should be treated as a science? It may seem that investigation into the past ought to be a straightforward business, but history has been subject to a crisis of self-definition over a considerable period of time. Tentu sekali ini berbalik kepada latar belakang Evans, seorang sejarahwan Amerika yang berkhidmat di lapangan sejarah Eropah (terutamanya Jerman pada abad 19 dan 20). To distinguish the two he uses the example of the holocaust as a “litmus test for his arguments about historical evidence and representation” .

It is, as Evans makes clear in In Defense of History, toward the goal of knowing this past that so many ways of studying history have borne fruit. What makes it even more interesting is that Evans is not even particularly hostile to postmodernism. Aku perlu jujur untuk berkata ini: jikalau bukan kerana minatku kepada perbahasan historiografi, iaitu bidan sejarah kepada (penulisan) sejarah, buku ini adalah bernilai empat bintang paling tinggi. It gave me a nostalgic feeling for my first year at University studying history and reminded my why I choose to study it.

Manusia hanya mengenal Dunia melalui perantaraan bahasa dan bahasa pula tidak lebih daripada suatu binaan sosial, ujar pascamodenis. The success of this movement led to the assertion that it was the only true history and that all history was social history. Tambahan, kita tahu bahawasanya bahasa berkembang selari dengan objek rujukannya (signifier) maka disana faktor ekstra-tekstual tetap ada. For example his chapter headings are similar and his concluding paragraph is a homage to the concluding paragraph in Carr’s book. And if you do come across an argumentative post-modernist at a party telling you that you don’t know anything, you will have plenty of arguments to try to convince them otherwise!Evans begins by advancing what seems to him incontrovertible: 'present reality can be felt and experienced by our senses' (p.