Pemantapan susulan aspek teori di dalam bidang historiografi sepertin yang dilaksanakan oleh Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) yang membezakan antara sumber primer dan sumber sekunder telah mewujudkan mantera baru di dalam bidang penulisan sejarah: kumpul bahan-bahan berkaitan, disusuli dengan aksi pengkritikan sumber disamping menentu-sahkan keaslian artifak – inilah batu-batu asas yang harus disantuni mana-mana proses penulisan sejarah.

Recent advances in computer technology and satellite mapping have enabled remarkable discoveries of previously unimagined physical 'evidence', from ancient trade routes to the Turkish railway lines that T. That book would perhaps produce a discussion more fruitful for a modern day audience, but this was not Evans’ concern.

It’s not often that I read a book that’s written by a character in a movie, but I did so when I read Sir Richard Evans’s In Defense of History (1998). Evans contends that the practice of historic study proves this is wrong: the truth, the facts of the past indeed ARE attainable, by applying the correct methodology and when always understood as a preliminary result. Mulanya adalah Leopold Von Ranke (1795-1886) yang mempasakkan bidang sejarah pada fondasi yang mandiri. But this, again, is glib, because even is this was Evans intention, he certainly did not stick to that.

Later he cites Lehman again - not Derrida - as the source for Derrida's views on Paul de Man (footnote 17, p. Evans discusses the cases of David Abraham and Paul de Man at relevant places in his narrative, but gives more space to the most serious, that of holocaust denial.The exposition of popular mentalities, the cultural dimensions of power and the exploration of gender are examples of new directions in history made possible by the postmodern critique. I wish I had Metodologi sejarah, baik tradisional yang bertumpu kepada manusia-manusia Agung, ataupun saintifik yang bertumpu kepada sampel yang besar -sepertinya institusi, komuniti, bangsa- takkan sesekali mampu menggarap hal yang sedemikian. In fact, he welcomes many of the insights provided by postmodernism and other innovative approaches to history, including its subject-matter, its way of investigating and knowing the past, and how history is written. As it is, the book relates concerns among historians about postmodern philosophy in a way that I think will be good fodder for students.

His books have been awarded the Wolfson History Prize and the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History. and then end up with the resoundingly empiricist conclusion that, despite it all, 'it really happened', we can 'find out how' and know 'what it all meant' (p. Indeed, Evans explicitly sees the wave of postmodern criticism as parallel to the rise of other historical critiques and methodologies, be they philological, psychological, economic or linguistic. When it was published several years ago it attracted a predictable firestorm of criticism in spite of the fact that Evans goes to extraordinary lengths to moderate his attacks on postmodernism.The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow. Tahap kesarjanaan penulisan sejarah bagaimanapun tetaplah perlu dipelihara sesuai dengan tuntuan bidang yang mana tujuan utamanya adalah pencarian Kebenaran. That statement is pretty typical of the tone of the book, a robust, earthy common sense in which the word 'paranoia' would be less likely to appear than 'parakeet'. Bernard Crick, 'The truth, the whole truth - and nothing but', The Independent Saturday Magazine, 20 September 1997, p.