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Title: How to Write History.....
Review: Richard Evans attacks a controversial topic on the world of history today -- how to write history. There are many schools of theory in the historical profession which can affect the way historians view historical sources. Evans particulary narrows his viewpoint to those historians known as "post-modernists." He does this beccause post-modernists are perhaps some of the most controversial historians, not to mention the very theory itself, in the profession today. He also ponders what place post-modernists do have in the historical profession.Evans explores how some historians have gotten into trouble with how liberally they took their sources -- concentrating on one scholarly work about the Holocaust.This book is sure to continue the debate that continues to this day. It is thought provoking and will lead to more debate, to be sure.
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