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  1. May 30, 2004 · For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years.In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and ...

  2. For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline...

  3. Sep 22, 1987 · The New History and the Old is a marvelously written, perfectly serious, yet vastly entertaining critique of current fashions in the writing of history--social history, psychoanalytic history, quantitative history, Marxist and neo-Marxist history, mentalité history.

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    • 1987
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
  4. May 30, 2004 · For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years.

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    • 1987
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
  5. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her illuminating exploration of the myriad ways - new and old - in which historians make sense of the past.

  6. Book Reviews. The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals. Gertrude Himmelfarb. David A. Hollinger. PDF PLUS. More.

  7. Jan 1, 1995 · The New History and the Old is a marvelously written, perfectly serious, yet vastly entertaining critique of current fashions in the writing of history--social history, psychoanalytic history, quantitative history, Marxist and neo-Marxist history, mentalité history.