Martin Davies How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science Hardcover

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on historys academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship from becoming a disguise for pessimism or nihilism? It is valuable reading for anyone interested in historiography and historical theory. | Martin Davies How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science Hardcover