Reviews
"Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon."--E.A. Breisach, Choice "If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as balanced as [it is] indispensible."--David Armitage, Columbia University "At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating."--Roy Porter, University College, London "[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery."-- The Sunday Telegraph "...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars..."--Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books "Both the sense of the past and the strudy of history have changed significantly since E.H.Carr asked the question What is History? The key word in this new book, stimulating and in places provocative, is Now. Various authors, drawing largely on their personal experiences as historians, explore the processes and implications of change."--Asa Briggs, "Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon."--E.A. Breisach, Choice "If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as balanced as [it is] indispensible."--David Armitage, Columbia University "At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating."--Roy Porter, University College, London "[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery."--The Sunday Telegraph "...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars..."--Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books "Both the sense of the past and the strudy of history have changed significantly since E.H.Carr asked the question What is History? The key word in this new book, stimulating and in places provocative, is Now. Various authors, drawing largely on their personal experiences as historians, explore the processes and implications of change."--Asa Briggs, "Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon."--E.A. Breisach,Choice "If anyone were to provide an equivalent toWhat is History'for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as balanced as [it is] indispensible."--David Armitage, Columbia University "At last,What is History'gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating."--Roy Porter, University College, London "[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery."--The Sunday Telegraph "...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars..."--Claude Ury,History: Reviews of New Books "Both the sense of the past and the strudy of history have changed significantly since E.H.Carr asked the question What is History? The key word in this new book, stimulating and in places provocative, is Now. Various authors, drawing largely on their personal experiences as historians, explore the processes and implications of change."--Asa Briggs, '...he has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of discovery that 40 years of specialization has produced.' - Blair Worden, Sunday Telegraph '...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars...' - Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books 'Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon.' - E. A. Breisach, Choice Reviews of the Hardback edition: 'What is History? strongly influenced the generation of professional historians who came to maturity in the following decades. 'What is History Now?' presents a timely review of the debate forty years on and an expert examination of present trends and anxieties.' - Norman Davies 'What is History Now? presents the ideal solution to the dilemma of how to reappraise Carr's book without burying it. If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first-century, it would surely be David Cannadine.' - David Armitage 'At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating.' - Roy Porter '...destined to become a must-have text for today's history students.' - Tristram Hunt, BBC History Magazine '[Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery.' - Blair Worden, The Sunday Telegraph
