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Article: Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 1999
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Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, by Donald R. Kelley. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 340 pp. $17.00 (paper).
"What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best selling introduction to historiography that it still remains nearly forty years later. Several generations of historians have cut their teeth on it. Chief among its few competitors has been Geoffrey Elton's The Practice of History (1967), almost as terse, lucid and dogmatic, and aimed directly at Carr whose unabashed Whiggism, with its presentist and determinist tendencies, is confronted with ...