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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the PastWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy. Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr, The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners, a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners, a startling challenge to social scientists, and an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or cares about history.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/08/2004
ISBN: 9780195171570
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.40w x 0.43d
Review Citations: New York Times 08/15/2004 pg. 16
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This “berry” flavor tastes astoundingly terrible. It is a wonder to me that this could have passed any product development team. It is like the worst kind of cough medicine mixed with bitter off notes, and it is a very strong flavor, so it is very in your face. The orange original is not great tasting but not bad, you would assume they would only release a new flavor if it was better. They ought to call a flavor house and reformulate this, the technology exists to make this taste good, but wow, this is really unpleasant.
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Good flavor
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Good flavor. I quit drinking Metamucil in the past because I didn't like the orange. I was reluctant to try a different flavor but after reading many positive comments about this one I decided to try it. I was not disappointed. Thank you to all who left positive comments about the Berry flavor.
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Orange flavor
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This is a great product. I love the orange flavor for it being sugar free . It tastes amazing.
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