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DAVID CANNADINE is Director of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London, having returned to England from a Chair in History at Columbia University. His many books include The Pleasures of the Past, History in our Time, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain and Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire. He edits the journals Historical Research and Reviews in History.
Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon. --E.A. Breisach, Choice <br> If anyone were to provide an equivalent to What is History? for the early twenty-first century, it would surely be David Cannadine...as balanced as [it is] indispensible. --David Armitage, Columbia University <br> At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating. --Roy Porter, University College, London <br> [Cannadine] has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and<br>lucidity, the scale and excitement of [historical] discovery. -- The Sunday Telegraph <br>.. .should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars... --Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books <br> Both the sense of the past and the strudy of history have changed significantly since E.H.Carr asked the question What is History? The key word in this new book, stimulating and in places provocative, is Now. Various authors,
