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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's “end of history,” Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.

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Himmelfarb has an intellect of steel as sharp as a razor. For those who enjoy intellectual debate and a concern for the value of the past, The New History and the Old is as splendid as an Olympic fencing match. -- J. H. Plumb * Wall Street Journal *
One can only share Ms. Himmelfarb’s hope that we shall soon be allowed to ‘find a renewed excitement in the drama of events, the power of ideas, and the dignity of individuals’… [The New History and the Old] will serve as a powerful corrective to many unquestioned assumptions. -- Neil McKendrick * New York Times Book Review *

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/2004
      ISBN13: 9780674013841, 978-0674013841
      ISBN10: 0674013840

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      Book Synopsis
      For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's “end of history,” Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.

      Trade Review
      Himmelfarb has an intellect of steel as sharp as a razor. For those who enjoy intellectual debate and a concern for the value of the past, The New History and the Old is as splendid as an Olympic fencing match. -- J. H. Plumb * Wall Street Journal *
      One can only share Ms. Himmelfarb’s hope that we shall soon be allowed to ‘find a renewed excitement in the drama of events, the power of ideas, and the dignity of individuals’… [The New History and the Old] will serve as a powerful corrective to many unquestioned assumptions. -- Neil McKendrick * New York Times Book Review *

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