Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Carr What is history?

Positivists- belong to cult of facts, saw history as a science, empirical strain of studying history
Empirical, common sense of history, concerned with facts. As soon as biases come through, it is not history, but it is opinion, reaction, perception is passive

Carr's View-active, not important if it is recorded, is only history when a fact is 'removed from the page' and interpreted


Carr's view basically expressed how facts are useless unless they are evaluated. Also he expresses how perecerption plays a major role in our ability to judge history and say what history is

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