E. Carr – författare

Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.

Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's "What is History?" has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text that still has power to provoke debate today. For this fortieth anniversary reissue, Richard J. Evans has written an extensive new introduction that discusses the origins and the impact of the book, and assesses its relevance in the age of the 21st century postmodernism and epistemological anxiety.

E.H. Carr (1892-1982) is an acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In "The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin", he provides the student and general reader alike with insights and knowledge of a lifetime's work. This short history of the Russian Revolution is now available in a new edition, with a new introduction by R.W. Davies.

These essays now reprinted and prefaced by Jonathan Haslam, E.H. Carr's biographer, give the reader a representative sample of Carr's interests over several decades. They include picture portraits of figures, both major and minor, from the 19th and 20th centuries, some of whom he knew firsthand. The essays also reflect on the major events and their impact including the Paris peace settlement of 1919 and the legacy of Stalin in Russian history.