Examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers the author's own view of what history is. This edition provides an introduction which discusses how scholars have responded to his classic over the years.

This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire.

To mark the 40th anniversary of this text, this updated volume reviews the state of the discipline at the beginning of the 21st century. Renowned scholars ask and seek to answer Carr's question for a new generation of historians: what does it mean to study history at the start of the 21st century?

Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser was published in Vienna. This book presents his history to English-language readers.

A companion volume to the BBC television series of 1996, which looks at the art produced in America from early Native American art to contemporary works and artists with a view to understanding the American psyche.