Softback. Green and yellow cover with title and liberation picture on the front board.

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What’s best known about this book is Evans’s defence of history from postmodernism. But what’s interesting for us amateur readers of history is his general discussion of the many ways history is done. The book has a 12-page introduction and confines footnotes to the back, making it easier to read.

The author asks what history really is. Is it simply a record of politics? Of vast, impersonal forces? Of thought? Should historians stop looking for causes and concentrate on consequences?

Richard Evans  was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Evans has also taught at the University of Stirling, University of East Anglia and Birkbeck College, London. Having been a Visiting Professor in History at Gresham College during 2008/09, he is now the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.