How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past? Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological Problems in the discipline of history.
Each chapter in Histories and Fallacies gives an account of a particular prob.
Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical Problems as a way to examine what History is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood.
How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past? Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological Problems in the discipline of history