In Defence of History

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Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the `cultural turn' taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of biased writers who had incomplete information, none could be privileged above others. In this reading, there could be no objective history, merely the study of the texts themselves.