When we try to answer the question "What is History?", our answers, consciously or unconsciously, reflect the era we live in and form part of our answers to the larger question of how we view our society. The author argues that not every past event is considered historical, nor is it viewed as such by the historian. He then proceeds to answer a precise question: What is the criterion that distinguishes historical facts from other past events? In doing so, he discusses a number of issues related to the problems of historical thought from a philosophical perspective, dividing these issues into: The Historian and His Facts, Society and the Individual, History, Science and Morality, Causation in History, History as Progress, and The Widening Horizons.

This book is one of the foundational reference works on the epistemology of history, defining the field of knowledge and its methods of inquiry.

About the author: An English historian, journalist, diplomat, and one of the leading theorists of history in contemporary Western thought.

• Author: Edward Carr
• Translator: Riham Abd El-Maboud
• Publisher: Dar Alam Al-Adab for Translation and Publishing - Cairo
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Number of Pages: 171
• Number of Parts: 1
• Binding Type: Paperback
• Paper Type: Recycled
• Printing Colors: Single Color
• ISBN: 9789776539532